This project asked us to think of landscape as a multi-layered, multi-scalar system which can be deployed in many contexts to immerse and engage its location fully. The site and program offered the possibility to use landscape at different scales, from the size of a bench to an infrastructural system and everything in between. This project focused on relationships between mass and ground, and to investigate their implications and possibilities in each of them. In this studio, three classifications of deployment as a way to categorize and evaluate their intervention was given. Cuddles: The intertwined relationship between masses where neither is the host nor the guest to the point where it is indistinguishable to determine where one starts and the other one ends. Inlays: ​Subdivision and Inserts as an attempt to produce multiplicity out of a single element generating objects inside objects and or Shaders: ​Textures and graphics applied to geometry as a transition between mass and landscape to help blur their edges and produce effects of continuity and indeterminacy. For this design interplay with ground and objects as a form of cuddles became an interest, with extensive research in tectonic and biological forms to create a park.
Instructor: Ivan Bernal