This was a student project by Linda Pak for Ann Pendleton-Jullian's ARCH 844 course, Winter 2008. Project statement: This studio's task was to discover what it meant to urbanize the rural landscape in this open program project in a historically-rich landscape and estate in Somerset, U.K. This project is an ornamentalized landscape, derived from a rule-based pattern of diamonds, but has a productive nature in its use of a clover field for nitrogen replacement and the possibility of sustainable features. The pattern became the overall field condition by which various other conditions such as wind, sun, and water become filters that could be translated pragmatically into terraces where housing is located and a series of ponds that could become grey-water filters. The design was not only about a series of varied experiences achieved by striating the site in both north-south and east-west directions, but about a close relationship to the sun, with orientation similar to Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The plan exaggerates a seemingly undefined field by playing up its climatic and topographic nuances. This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University.
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