Handle With Care

A Living Pavilion for Care, Growth, and Presence Lugano, Switzerland Autumn 2026

What we tend, tends us proposes a radically simple yet layered response to an era of acceleration and material excess: slow down, stay close, cultivate presence. Installed in Lugano’s landscape in autumn 2026, the project is a living pavilion that invites visitors into a shared act of witnessing—not as passive observers, but as participants in a collective choreography of care. At its center is a modest bamboo dome, assembled from sustainably harvested canes with simple, reversible joinery. The form echoes vernacular shelters and ceremonial rooms: an architecture of gathering. What animates the structure is what grows through it. Oyster mushroom mycelium—prepared in advance on jute-wrapped bamboo and organic substrate—gradually colonizes defined zones of the frame. Growth is guided by seasonal timing, moisture control, and clear boundaries, allowing the pavilion to evolve while remaining stable, safe, and legible as architecture. FACTS: Pavilion Ø 4.9 m (16 ft) Biosphere Ø 0.9 m (3 ft) Bamboo + reversible joinery Mycelium zones on jute/substrate Operates through end Nov 202