Wild Futures Pollinator Node

The Wild Futures Pavilion is a sculptural urban intervention designed to reintroduce pollinator networks into the city while reframing public space as a site of multi-species coexistence. Conceived as an Urban Pollinator Node, the pavilion provides shelter, nesting opportunities, and food sources for bees and other pollinating insects, while simultaneously engaging people through architecture, landscape, and education.

Constructed from prefabricated plywood modules, the pavilion is composed of integrated bee hotels and planters that aggregate into an organic architectural form. In contrast to the hardness of concrete plazas, the pavilion introduces texture, porosity, vegetation, and life—transforming residual or under-performing urban spaces into ecological and social catalysts. The modular system allows for adaptability, replication, and relocation across different urban contexts, from civic squares and campuses to schoolyards and cultural precincts.

Beyond its ecological function, the pavilion operates as a didactic structure. It makes pollinators visible within the everyday city, encouraging public awareness of biodiversity loss and demonstrating how architecture can actively support urban ecosystems. By inviting people to inhabit, observe, and learn from a living structure, the project challenges anthropocentric models of design and proposes a future where cities are shared environments.

The Wild Futures Pavilion positions architecture not as a passive backdrop, but as productive infrastructure—one that generates habitat, fosters biodiversity, and cultivates new relationships between people, nature, and the built environment.