LA4003 Landscape Foundation Studio One Forest Divya Shah Anjali Jain

LA4003

Landscape Foundation Studio One Forest

Program

Landscape Architecture

Unit Assistants

Raakesh Gandhi Vivin Shankar

Students

Anmol Tewari Anuja Patil Avneet Kaur Waraich Chanakya Rajani Drishti Ghosh G Pranathi Hardikkumar Agawala Janhavi Modh Jegan M Khushboo Prashant Lavanya K Mabel Annie Biju P Madhoolika Raveesh M Rose Mary Sebastian Rucha Ketkale Rukeia Bora Sakshi Rashinkar Sanika Kalantre Selvee Pandoriya Sneha B John Tanuj Gupta Zenia Vandrewala Divya Shah Anjali Jain

The studio began with a fundamental premise of landscape architecture -of reading a landscape, ‘re–presenting’ it and responding to it articulately.

In the first part ‘Reading & Representing’, the studio looked at ways of seeing, recording, and interpreting a place through drawings. It moved on to making a set of constructs that measure and explore the landscape in an interpretative manner. In the second part ‘Imagining & Constructing’ , the students derived a larger idea related to the landscape investigated. Based on their vision, narrative and ‘re- presentation’ of the landscape studied, they attempted to imagine a response to the site.

The forest/ the jungle/ the woods: A place that we sense as archaic, primeval; and a space that is deep and dense. Forests are complex, layered and varied in terms of ecology, chronology and the human narratives that describe them. While they can be understood as rational relationships of geography, soil, climate and vegetation, on the other hand they are more than the sum of these parts and have their place deep in the human imagination. We investigated a forest and attempted to look at it from a multi-dimensional perspective and developed many ways of understanding this complex unit. We then attempted to ‘re -present’ it to form a basis for creating a journey through its many ‘natures’ and engaging with it meaningfully.

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Fig 1 Hardikkumar Agawala, Mabel Annie

Biju, P Madhoolika  Forest sections Fig 2 Hardikkumar Agawala Sketch - Rajaji National Park Fig 3 Mabel Annie Biju Sketch – Konni Reserve Forest Fig 4 Avneet Kaur Forest narrative – Govindham forest, Uttarakhand Fig 5 Rucha Ketkale Forest narrative – Radhanagiri wildlife sanctuary

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Fig 6 Anmol Tewari Forest narrative – Aksora forest, Mukteshwar

Fig 7 Anuja Patil, Rucha Ketkale

Understanding the larger systems Fig 8 P Madhoolika Threshold of the transient forest Fig 9 Mabel Annie Biju Walk past the shallow swamps Fig 10 Sanika Kalantre Experiencing

avifaunal diversity

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