RIFT - Regenerative Ideas For Tomorrow
Kine Jæger-Larasse
Nicolai Jæger-Larasse
We are driven by a shared belief that architecture must exist in deep dialogue with ecological systems, our work combines ecological thinking, craft and community engagement. Through this approach, we challenge extractive building practices and propose new, more caring relationships between people, materials and nature.
// Julia Andersson is a distinguished architect and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture. Her work explores regenerative futures for the built environment, with a strong focus on sensory experience, material cycles and human-nature relations. Julia’s site-specific installations blend architecture, art and urban planning, often through multidisciplinary collaborations. Working with natural and reclaimed materials like clay, straw and ocean plastics, she envisions a material culture rooted in repair and symbiosis. Her project The Loop, winner of LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch, reimagines water and human nutrients as visible, sacred architectural flows. It was featured in Dezeen, Forbes and Land Art of the 21st Century. She also won the Open Call Prototyp Göteborg 2023 and was concept developer for the Zaatari Refugee Classroom, named Building of the Year 2018 by ArchDaily.
// Kine Jæger-Larasse is an architect and artist with a background in immersive art and theatre. Her work emphasizes emotional presence, using spatial storytelling to foster meaningful dialogue. She brings sensitivity to narrative, participation and affective design. Kine is co-owner and chair of the board at KINICO.
// Nicolai Jæger-Larasse is an architect focused on playful, durable and ecologically attuned design. He brings expertise in biogenic materials and hands-on sustainable construction. Nicolai is co-owner and managing director of KINICO.
Together, we blend conceptual design, craft and lived experience—working toward a regenerative, emotionally resonant design culture.
RIFT begins with a simple yet profound recognition: we are not separate from nature – we are nature. This understanding serves as both a conceptual foundation and a call to action. The way we build must reflect our entanglement with ecological systems and our responsibility to regenerate them.
Initiated in response to the urgent need to rethink our material cultures in the age of climate crisis, RIFT is an ongoing exploration of regenerative building practices rooted in the Nordic context. It critically investigates biogenic materials—those that are naturally renewable, carbon-sequestering, and regionally sourced—as a response to the extractive logic of conventional construction.
Our inquiry is both speculative and practice-oriented, blending research, craft and design. We explore how traditional knowledge and material heritage can inform future-forward methods of construction that align with living systems. Through material prototyping, workshops and collaborations with ecologists, architects and craftspeople, RIFT evolves as a platform for exchange and experimentation.
Rather than propose a finished architectural object, RIFT examines processes: how materials are grown, harvested, shaped and ultimately returned to the earth. The project fosters curiosity around how these processes shape not only spaces but also relationships—between humans, materials, and landscapes.
RIFT’s impact lies in its ability to shift perception, offering a narrative that positions the act of building within regenerative cycles. The most successful aspect has been its role as a catalyst for dialogue—inviting diverse voices to imagine a built environment that heals rather than harms.
Looking forward, we envision RIFT expanding through site-specific installations, participatory research, and interdisciplinary collaborations across the Nordic region. Our aim is to cultivate a regenerative design culture that embraces complexity, honors ecological wisdom and builds with nature.