Designed Landscapes as Frameworks for Interpretation

The project approaches the design of landscape through two lenses: geomorphological diversity and interpretation of biodiversity by visitors to the site. The protocol for iterating public landscape that this project proposes creates a landscape experience in which geomorphological diversity is organized and perceived along every pedestrian path. Landscape architects use compositional rules of landscape photography and painting to give meaning and order to this perceived landscape.

While digital modeling tools allow us to understand the metrics and ecological performance of damba configurations, pictorial landscapes allow us to interpret that landscape from a human perspective. Designing the damba landscape from both a metrics-based and pictorial perspective allows us to create a landscape imbued with interpretation. We can use these digital tools to set up ecological conditions along pedestrian paths and viewpoints, creating key moments where differing conditions come into focus.