Art Terrace

Academic Campus

Brandeis University - Brandeis, MA

The approach to this project seeks to establish a vegetative and topographic rhythmical system of edges; able to define circulation and programming space. The essence of the project is based on choreography (art of making structures in which movement occurs). There’s no choreography without movement or time, as well as landscape. Nature moves on different planes and varied timescales. I wanted to explore the different movement/time quality experiences that can be found, displayed and introduced on site. The programmatic role of landscape would be to provide transitional spaces where art, nature and human intersect and become both performers and spectators. The circulation was meant to provide a fluent and phenomenological transition from every point to any destination. Plants were chosen by their structural and movement qualities; plants that share potential moves with the human body such as; bending, stretching, turning, darting, rising.

GSD Studio | Spring 2009 Professor: Virginia Johnson Tools: Adobe CS, AutoCAD