This was a graduate student project by Nathan Christopher Wendling for Michael Cadwell's ARCH 842 course, Winter 2006. Malabar Farm, located in Mansfield, Ohio is a landmark site that implements organic farming and innovative use of cultivation by crop rotations. The challenge was to work from the construction detail of an Architectural component through schematic design. This project implemented the use of a trombe wall as a passive barrier between field and forest. Pods are networked into the trombe wall for heat and lifted above grade for natural ventilation and minimal site impact. The hovering landscape reverbs from the wall formation and creates sectional variance to allow for new views through the hybrid landscape into the existing landscape. Crop rotations are depicted within this hybrid system to allow for changing views through the system based upon season and crop height. ---- Nathan Christopher Wendling 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. This effort was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, KSA, drawings and plans, computer renderings.
