Pluriverse: Landscape
While keeping in mind the scales of existence of nonhuman organisms in the Ramble, I turned my attention to the architectures that occur naturally at the site: the trickling stream, the interlocking layers of the canopy, and the lush vegetation comprising the understory together form a grand yet intimate outdoor room.
Meanwhile, examining nonhuman inhabitants like the musk turtle offered a unique opportunity to understand and extract patterns of occupation that could inform a low-impact, harmonious human experience at the site.
Examining just one segment of the Ramble reveals an immense diversity of nonhuman life, a remarkable feat in the country’s most populous city.
Research of the musk turtle’s dwelling patterns informed these drawings, which are meant to translate its dark, murky habitat into a series of tangible forms that could eventually shape space for both human and nonhuman communities in the ramble.
The previous drawings inspired early model making. Themes of open-versus-closed, shelter-versus-exposure were explored to understand where nonhuman patterns of habitation converge with human history at the Ramble within a built intervention that would activate the site.
