ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE

Organic architecture or architectural organicism is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. By designing seeks to understand and integrate to the site, buildings, furnishings, and its surrounding area to become a unified and correlated part.

The characteristics of organic architecture are:
1 -. The materials used should be primarily natural materials and in its most natural state possible, using if possible, surrounding materials. They can also be recycled materials (natural or industrial) that the idea is to use materials under industrial process, or have demanded a low energy to manufacture and one of the characteristics of this type of architecture is precisely be more a manifestation of nature respecting their laws.

. 2 - The spatial and formal conception of the work must be in harmony with their environment and accept changes and modifications induced by
a) The materials to be used, that being natural, not all have the same shape and size (logs, rocks, mud, etc..)  b) The environment and physical reality, which sometimes are not fully known before the project. The idea of this is to always go in favor of nature, not against it

. 3 - The habitability of the work, you should consider heating or ventilation systems with low energy, such as solar energy, geothermal energy, consumption etc, good insulation in your walls, windows and roof..
All this without being fundamentalist (or intolerant) since one of the features of nature, is their adaptability and tolerance.

The organic style is an architectural movement which derives from or rationalism and functionalism can be considered mainly promoted by Scandinavian architects and in the decade from 1930 to 1940 by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The movement accepts many of the premises of rationalism, such as the free plan, the dominance of the usefulness of the merely ornamental, architecture incorporating advances of the industrial age, but try to avoid some of the mistakes that falls rationalism and provide new values ​​to architecture.

Gustav Stickley architects, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Louis Sullivan, Bruce Goff, Rudolf Steiner, Bruno Zevi, Hundertwasser, Samuel Flores Flores, Imre Makovecz and Anton Alberts are the greatest exponents of the so-called organic architecture.