I really like the subtle emphasis on traditional engineering, whereby we tend to use the simplest methods to produce something predictable, and can therefore re

I really like the subtle emphasis on traditional engineering, whereby we tend to use the simplest methods to produce something predictable, and can therefore recognize it as "unnatural". It ignites the imagination to think of what an unpredictable, "natural" engineering scheme may produce for us in terms of beauty or unexpected utility. For example, I always thought it best to learn outdoors and that 90-degree angles hinder me, they make me anxious and tense. What about a classroom with smooth, round edges, walls of varying but somehow synergistic colors schemes, and beams of varying lengths, textures, and widths, like what you'd see in a natural setting? All precisely calculated and predictable, but the effect would be abstractly beautiful rather than concretely unexpected. When I was a kid I lived on a street with a hill and field and some very large deciduous trees growing out back. There was a windstorm in summer that broke off entire limbs from these trees which collected in a loose pile by the trunks. The branches fell in such a way that you could go inside the pile, like a little hut. The neighborhood kids and I moved some around and made a more secure version, but the base structure was the same. It inspired us greatly, I think we slept out there for two days.