While visiting the site, looking at these mangroves submerged in water, they were quite dense but yet so porous and lightweight.
Question
How can a built form not overpower the site and blend with it?
Design Intent
The site is a 7 m tall basalt rock, thus softening it with the experience of forest and imagining the builtform to not be a solid mass and rather a branching , lightweight dense porous form.
Thus the intent was to meander through forest and encountering these pod like structures which are submerged in these trees .
Site Imagination and Conceptual Sketches
Plan Process
Section Process
Physical Model
Plans
Cut Lines
Sections
Section AA'
Detail
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