Planta is the culmination of the desire to give back, to return through a balanced tension between art, institution, knowledge, ecology and manufacturing. Planta is not only a building but also a concept, a crossroads of and for ideas, an embodiment of a personality and vision and in this way, a guide for the future. Excavated and constructed from the very site it occupies, Planta provides a fixed point of reference amid the flux of an ever changing literal and abstract landscape. It is an embodiment of the values that have informed the processes in and around Planta.