Traces, outlines a proposal for a medicinal plant repository in Bangladesh, that seeks to explore a future pharma that combines Ayurveda and Western medicine. The intent is to create an ambassadorial complex where medicine is grown, researched and distributed to the local community, to restore a historic culture of pharmacognosy, within an urban fabric. Whilst providing sanctuary for native endangered medicinal plants, at risk due to rapid climate change. The building aims to take on an ecologically sustainable approach by reducing construction emissions to a minimum, through materiality and using passive energy techniques that draw from the natural climate. The building materials are sourced and fabricated locally from traces of climate change, giving the building an essence of belonging and eliminating the aspect of Awayness.
(c) Jade Bailey
(c) Jade Bailey