Nature & Architecture at Scale (First Year, First Semester)

This project looked at how architecture and nature interact at different scales. Specifically how the relationship between the natural and man-made takes a dramatic swing as the scale adjusts from 1:5000 down to 1:10. The project output was a set of 5 models each at a different scale.

(From left to right) The first model at 1:5000 shows the dominance of nature and its power over how we arrange our cities, at this scale man-made has to fit within nature. The next model at 1:1000 still shows natures dominance over our built environment at a large scale. In the central model at 1:500 the play between natural and man-made becomes tougher as we are able to shape our environment much more. Second from the right is at 1:200, the man-made begins to control nature and place it within the spaces where we need it and want it. Finally at 1:10 man-made controls nature, we put plants in boxes, we tidily tuck it away into the spaces where we need it.

The material choices here were simple. Man-made was highly processed, industrially clean white plastic whilst nature was the earthy, warm, textured radiata pine.