Landscapes
Experiments with landscapes present opportunities to break with the complexities of the urban system, and in this way to decontextualize the otherwise prescribed rituals of gathering.
This series of projects focus on developing circular systems that use recycled or locally available materials and engage specific natural processes to create spaces for gathering.
The Elements (‘Land Art Generator’ Competition - Shortlisted project) is an outdoor room in the desert, naturally ventilated through an adjacent rammed earth tower that allows for events to take place
The Sound of the Volcano engages stone and wind, material and the intangible, permanent and ephemeral - two contrasting elements that together create an acoustic experience through resonance. A pathway emerges through the simple, but precised reorganization of the volcanic stone, to become a ‘breathing‘ sculpture, one with the volcano. (Inspired by the Sound Gardens of Pinuccio Sciola)
HUMMING VOLCANO
Stone and wind, material an intangible, permanent and ephemeral - two contrasting elements that create an acoustic experience through resonance. A sculptural pathway emerges through the simple, but precise reorganization of the volcanic stone, to become a breathing scultpture that gives voice to the volcano.
Competition, 2021
Collaboration with Miranda Vukasovic and inspired by the Sound Gardens of Pinuccio Sciola
The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial (Ideas Competition, 2021) engages the vegetal realm to transform remote sites around the world previously used for nuclear testing - into garden ecologies that bring people together through the management and guardianship of the landscape
The garden
‘The Garden‘ is a reflection on what it means to design a contemporary memorial that is contemplative and regenerative, timeless and evolutionary, experiential and educational, collective and intimate.
The ‘Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial’ design competition was launched in support of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted in 2017, (on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima). The competition sought out designs for a conceptual project to be located in ANY decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site.
The project proposes to engage natural processes to regenerate and repurpose these landscapes for various ypes of gatherings.