Sima Selina Belli

This degree project explores how multispecies coexistence can be negotiated within the constraints of urban life. By deliberately limiting the design space to one square metre, it adopts a familiar human measurement as both a constraint and a tool—one that carries clarity, control, and creative potential. Within this defined boundary, the project investigates how space might be reimagined for non-human inhabitants.

Three (semi-)urban typologies frame the exploration: the Green, the Grey, and the Blue. In the Green, the artefact sits within park-like environments shaped by both natural growth and human infrastructure. In the Grey, it occupies dense, sealed urban surfaces dominated by movement and architecture. In the Blue, it engages with aquatic or waterside conditions. Across these contexts, the project proposes spatial interventions that support non-human life while remaining legible and acceptable within human environments.