Year: 2015
Type: Commissions, Architectural Landscapes, Conceptual Designs.
Project Team: Albert Orozco, Chris Detjen, Ron Rael, Santiago Casal.
Almost everything decomposes into the ground: cardboard included. “Land” is a series of conceptual design models that use a sequence of formal moves to shape the ground, in this case cardboard. By creating a series of stacked models, ground is no longer a pile, but a thin datum that angulates a surface. These surfaces are waffled, coned, furrowed, rotated, or rippled to shape an existing, manicured land form at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, California. A boolean operation is performed to the center of these surfaces at 37.8721° N, 122.3190° W. Three cuts are subtracted from the surface that point and capture the solstice and equinox light at sunrise and sunset. Lastly, a circular form is removed from the center to create a space for memorial, remembrance, and vision.