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SOIL, ROOTS AND VESSEL
Individual Work
February - March 2022
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Instructor: Katy Barkan
Los Angeles, CA
SOIL, ROOTS AND VESSEL IS an arboretum, which provides a different perspective reviewing relationship between the land, plants and us.
The project focuses on materializing and physicalising both positive and negative space to construct a certain architecture structure. These nesting concrete vessels embracing the in-between negative space also support the structure generated from the negative space which featuring a variety of programs ranged science lab, herbarium, education centre to restrooms as an arboretum would require.
These large concrete vessel-like structure plays the role similar to flower vessels, which are defined as smaller in the aspect of scale. What is contained inside is more than roots, but also soil. A part of each vessel is a transparent material called polymethylmethacrylate, which is going to show the visitors what is contained inside the vessels.
The arboretum shows multiple perspectives on soil and plants with aspects of scale and z-axis (soil level). The arboretum should raise confusion, suspicion or even insanity. The arboretum, or the soil and roots of plants would like to have us, human beings to rethink the relationship between us and soil, roots.
