BODY vs LAND
The UCL Bartlett School of Architecture BSc (2019)
Flimwell Park, England
An Explorative, Wearable Forestry Survey Apparatus
Challenge the convention by inventing the body as a choreographic tool to reconstruct space. How can landscape knowledge arrive in a motion-sensitive form?
Initial Design:
Wearable Tree Climbing Apparatus
I innovate an intimate surveying method of the landscape using my body. I was deeply inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s unconventional attempt to convey sensory experience through linguistic tools. By translating the tree climbing experience into abstract visual drawings, my previous explorational logs of the forest inscribed the intimate relationship between the spectator, myself, and the site.
The final survey apparatus is about full body engagement and the inscription of the spectator's bodily intimate and personal relationships with the forest.
Provoked by designer Thomas Thwaites, I completed my final version of the apparatus, engaging the entire body to immerse more deeply into the area for more comprehensive experimental logs. The body plays a central role in reconstructing landscape language, reading the site through personal experience. Architecture can be designed as bodily intimate in the same sense.
