Fire and Flood
Emma Georgeff | 12/19
Two natural processes, prairie fires and flooding, drive the Iowan landscape. One has the power to rejuvinate while the other can completely destroy communities.
Wood material, meant to look like driftwood Transparent Blue Plexiglass Little Blue Stem
Shelter
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kwem/floods-nearly-wiped-this-iowa-townoff-the-map-it-may-never-come-back
Rest shelter design based off of the devasting floods in Pacific Junction, a small Iowa town near the site.
Plan View
Flood Installations
Red-toned grasses contrast with the flood panels. They represent a prairie burn, a necessary process that encourages new growth.
Fire and Flood| Emma Georgeff
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/ photocontest/detail/natural-world/ prairie-fire-in-the-flint-hills-of-kansas-at-sunset/