Residential School responds to the needs of Foresta Seasonal Academy and School without Walls. It includes places to stay for the Seasonal Academy participants, artists in residence, kids and families taking part in School without Walls, as well as collective spaces for togetherness and indoor learning facilities.

Food Lab is at the heart of edible experimentation within the forest garden, and the inquiry into more respectful and playful sustenance. It includes a kitchen, ingredient transformation facilities, as well as collective dining space.

Guest houses as structures for hospitality hold space for inviting temporary dwellers into the project, those wishing to experience the place not only during a day visit, but potentially staying for a while, as a way to travel slower and get to know the place closer. Such possibility to engage with the place is also a way to contribute to the economy of the project and its long-term sustainability. It is however important to make sure it will be a temporary participation in a living place, not consumption of a destination, like tourism industry has been promoting.

Camping belong to the same structures of hospitality as a guest house described above, but offers a more affordable options to temporarily stay at Foresta. Further ideas connected to this thinking include a sauna and a swimming pond.

While School without Walls is a guided learning experience within Foresta Kids, Landscapes of Childhood is its extension into spatial practice. It’s an ecology of spaces, invitations, states, rhythms, and affordances, shaped by human imagination and intervention as much as by natural processes, where the space itself, the built elements and the landscape, become collaborators and actively care for the child. It’s a constellation of micro-worlds that hold space for open free play, learning and connection.

Bonding needs a sanctuary. Temple of Ancestors is a sanctuary for remembering. It’s the most mysterious place at Foresta. A place where language thins. A place where the living acknowledge the dead as ecological, cultural, and spiritual co-presence — not as absence. It’s a place that honours ancestry beyond family lineage, ancestors may be human, plant, animal, elemental, cultural, wounded or forgotten. Ancestry may be all that has made us possible, all that continues to act through us, and all that asks something of us. Restoration of bonding requires protection from speed, extraction, noise, performance, irony, and consumption. Sanctuary protects the possibility of seriousness of such intention.

Multispecies Commons Walk is a cultural pathway embedded into the landscape. It’s a connecting thread that invites to visit different areas and projects within Foresta on the land, learn about the cosmology of our work, and connect with the local landscape and its inhabitants through a contemplative walking journey. Communication partners on the walk will be several site-specific artefacts, artistic objects, installations or micro-architectural structures.