Designs in Nature includes a variety of projects that incorporate the natural landscape.
The first consists of a Cliff Dwelling, allowing people to reside within a cliff. By digging and re-incorporating level farming on the back side to provide a comfortable and self-sustainable environment. The second, Erosion, is a design that works with a topography in Turkey. By subtracting and adding to the land, the natural process of erosion becomes guided. Allowing the artificial design to be incorporated in the natural elements of the existing landscape.
Cliff dwelling, section
Erosion, combination of artificial and natural
Final Erosion design. Addition and subtraction overtake the spaces when natural occurrences are guided through artificial constructions.
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