The project reconfigures the relationship between architecture and urban birds, questioning a human centred conception of space. Once established on cliffs, certain bird species have adapted to the city by perceiving buildings as substitute habitats.

Yet recent architectural transformations increasingly erase the very conditions that allowed them to settle: gaps, cavities, ledges and eaves disappear, while glass façades, sealed envelopes and devices such as bird spikes make the urban environment more exclusive.

Going beyond making the existing surface bird friendly, the project extends the birds’ habitat from the edges of windows into the interior of the building. The existing outer wall is maintained as a wind regulating layer, while a second insulated wall defines a distinct interior space for human occupants. Between these two layers, an open zone emerges as a shared buffer space.

Within a single building, this experimental structure brings together distinct ecological conditions and proposes a new spatial order, one in which humans and nonhumans coexist in productive tension.