This was a student project by Leann Benkart and Jesse Van Walsen for Jason Kentner's LARCH 624 course, Autumn 2006. Da Vine Intervention is an environmental site installation study done at Highbanks Metro Park in Columbus, Ohio. Using 100% natural materials, the project intention is to display strength in nature using a material that is not ordinarily credited; the vine. Vines are most often seen as negative elements within natural settings, strangling trees and causing a visual nuisance. Our project highlights the positive qualities of vines used on 3 different surfaces: air, tree and ground. The twists and winds of this flexible material create a complex medium in this natural setting. Over time, the installation flexes and reacts to phenomena. With heavy precipitation, the river emerges to become part of the installation, drawing the vines in the forces of the current. Autumn winds blow colorful leaves over the site, collecting on the edges and within the tangles. With the first fall of snow, the installation appears angelic and full of wonder, leaving any negative opinion of vines behind. -- Leann Benkart and Jesse Van Walsen This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. Keywords: student work, KSA, installation.
