Tom Bosschaert
Design for the living world.
Design for the living world.
I design systems that let human settlements work with living ones. I have been doing this for 25 years through architecture, strategy, writing, and teaching. I founded Except Integrated Sustainability in 1999 and created the SiD framework for whole-systems regenerative design.
Tom Bosschaert
Architect and urban planner
Yale MArch, TU Delft
Frameworks, books, and essays on systems design, regeneration, and the architecture of sustainable societies.
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A registered architect and urban planner. Yale MArch, TU Delft engineer. Buildings and plans shaped by how energy, water, and people actually move through a place.
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The systems we have built are extraordinary. The ones we have failed to build are even more so.
from Symbiosis in Development
A comprehensive framework for designing whole systems toward regeneration
The world's largest ecosystem rooftop, 2.2 hectares above downtown San Francisco
Seven years, 484 GWh saved. Enough to light 145,000 Swedish homes for a year.
Company-wide circularity vision, strategy, and roadmap for 100+ breweries
Historic train depot transformed into an energy-neutral circular coworking hub
Sustainability strategy for one of Europe's busiest airports
A 468-page open-source framework for designing whole systems toward regeneration. Twelve years of research, field application, and teaching distilled into one book.
I work where design, ecology, and systems meet. If that is your terrain too, write to me.
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