Project Description

In our very first design project we were charged with designing the long narrow south room of the Walker conservatory. We began our process by choosing three words from a reading and two spatial concepts from which to design. I chose the words time, gravity, and erosion, and the concepts of repetition and depressed planes. The words I chose inspired an exploration of the erosive effects water has over time in the environment. I began to explore the visual forms of past and current styles of irrigation, such as ditches and pipes, and also the forms created by erosion such as rivulets and exposed rock. My final design consisted of a series of depressed planes separated by ditches. Water drips from faucets, through small cuts  in the surface of the  planes, and into these ditches. The path of bridges leads from one plane to another where vegetation is planted in either rows or circular forms bringing to mind agricultural practices dictated by irrigation techniques.