GENERAFORMA
“FORMS OF REVERENCE”
2026
Lorenzo Natali is a landscape architect from Teramo, Italy, and the founder of GENERAFORMA. His research draws on reading natural processes across scales, from individual organisms to ecological systems, and on investigating how similar logics operate within designed environments.
Through a dialogic practice with AI, using vibe coding, Natali translates observed natural patterns into algorithmic structures and develops them into reproducible objects. The works are produced through FDM 3D printing in PLA and take the form of vessels and lamps, where computational rules become tactile artefacts.
These works are designed to receive spontaneous vegetation from urban margins, the 'third landscape', making visible what usually goes unnoticed.
“My work begins with the belief that nature is not a form to imitate, but a system of generative rules to understand.
Grounded in forest sciences and landscape architecture, I read natural processes across scales, from the behaviour of a single organism to the dynamics of an ecological system, and look for the logics that shape form over time.
GENERAFORMA translates these observations into algorithmic language through a dialogic practice with AI, using vibe coding.
In this process, observed patterns become algorithmic structures, and those structures become objects through 3D printing, in a continuous feedback loop between observation, digital reasoning, and material expression.
AI is not a stylistic generator in the background, but a working partner within a chain of authorship, while the conceptual direction and the criteria of meaning remain mine.
The objects I produce, vessels and lamps, treat function as a critical site: everyday use turns attention into a habit, and habit can become ritual.
At the core of this practice lies the intention to refocus attention on spontaneous vegetation inhabiting the margins of urban space, the “third landscape,” and to restore its presence through technological mediation.
By turning living processes into usable forms, I aim to make the continuity between nature, humans, and technology tangible, and to re train perception toward care for what is usually overlooked."
