Horseback seed system leads IE University interiors showcase

A seed-dispersing structure designed to be carried on horseback leads a new showcase of student interiors from IE University in Madrid.

The portable build is made from natural materials and is designed to spread native seed types while on the move. Think beyond four walls.

The projects appear in "Horse-mounted ecological regeneration system among projects by IE University", published by Dezeen School Shows on 14 September 2026. Dezeen The feature draws from the Master in Interior Design at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, described as a ten-month programme based in the Spanish capital, with Andrea Caruso listed as tutor.

Alongside the horseback system, the selection includes a hospital interior scheme informed by greenhouses, with planting, daylight and airflow shaping patient spaces. A separate concept proposes a flood-adaptive interior layer for homes in flood-risk areas, an insert designed to help a house cope when water gets in.

Two projects are named in full. Nyah Nassif's Healing the Ruin reimagines the abandoned Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York City as a living hydrological system, a water-led design that circulates, filters and holds water through the building. The proposal would cultivate seven medicinal and toxic plants within the ruin.

Isabel Dorn's Territories of Care responds to the ecological collapse of Lake San Pablo in Otavalo, Ecuador. It proposes modular structures built from local bahareque, a woven stick-and-mud wall method, and typha thatch, a reed material cut from waterside plants. Dezeen The materials tie new interior spaces to local building knowledge and to repair work around the lake.

What makes this stand out is the brief for interiors here. It is not decoration. It is seed routes, hospital wards, flood kits and lake-edge shelters, all drawn as interior problems.

The full feature, with images and project descriptions, is published on Dezeen School Shows.