Landform Spacing

University on Cincinnati, 2021

Landforms are a diverse tool of landscape architects with its effects within the landscape being a range of emotions from dramatic and subtle, formal and informal, grand and humble.

Design Intent Charles Jencks and his wife wanted to create a mysterious and wonderous land that was inspired my nature, science, and math. They wanted to create a place where you felt lost in time and space. Inspired by black holes, they wanted to create a space that was intriguing yet disorienting. In my model I wanted to keep this idea of disorientation but in a positive way. As a child you spin around until you are disorientated and laugh until it hurts. I wanted to create a space that made you feel disoriented in a way that you do not know where you came from or where you are going but you are looking froward to what is around the corner. I wanted to use paths, hierarchy, and scale to make adults and children feel small in this space as they move through the landscape. Light plays a big role in this design as the sun’s movement around it will shine light in these paths or create shade that gives it a more eerie and enclosed feeling while walking through.