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design | hart house farm
intervention | metamorphosis
landform sculpting earthwork hart house farm caledon hills, niagara escaprment
From opened to closed. This project is a landscape intervention that is intended to ‘reveal’ a personal reaction to the site, the 150 acre Hart House Farm retreat cradled in the Caledon Hills on the ridge of the Niagara Escarpment. It started with a photographic study based on a personal reaction to the site, and then evolved into a specific design intervention informed by the initial study. The initial photographic study observed the gradient of various space densities and microclimate changes existing on site from opened meadows, planted shrubby meadows, forested pond areas, to closed forested areas and the submerged escarpment areas. The closer you got to the Escarpment, the denser and more enclosed the spaces became. This gradient study was then translated into the intervention concept - metamorphosis. Breaking the boundaries between natural and artificial, the design process continued with an overly and morphing of the linear lot lines and the curvilinear contour lines that informed a heterogeneous site topography from ‘opened’ flat spaces to sloping ‘closed’ forested areas.
Master of Landscape Architecture Design First Year Studio
University of Toronto
Initial photographic study observed the gradient of various space densities and microclimate changes existing on site from opened meadows, planted shrubby meadows, forested pond areas, to closed forested areas and the submerged escarpment areas
site aerial
lot lines
topography
conceptual hybrid
topographic intervention, earthwork
vegetation density study
open meadow zone: most opened area with the least topographic variation
escarpment zone: denser enclosed areas with greatest topographic variation
transitory zone: interstitial area with varying topographic conditions
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