WATER MEETS LAND THE DESIGN APPROACH IS FOCUSED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF CONNECTION -WHERE WATER MEETS LAND- THE POEM WRITTEN IN LONDON WHILE YEATS WAS THINKING ABOUT INNISFREE. HE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE BUSY AND CHAOTIC CITY AND GO TO A PEACEFUL PLACE-INNISFREE. BUT EVERYTHING IS JUST A HOPE, A DREAM, AN IMAGINATION FOR HIM. THE WATER SURROUNDING THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE REFLECTED HIS LIFE IN THE BUSY CITY ON TO THE ISLAND. THE SURROUNDING WATER PROTECTING YEATS’ DREAM AND FORMS A PROTECTIVE LAYER TO FRAME HIS DREAM ON THE LAKE OF INNISFREE.
‘I WILL ARISE AND GO NOW, AND GO TO INNISFREE’ W. B. Ye a t s , 1 8 9 2 Th e La k e I s l e Of I n n i s f r e e
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WATER MOVEMENT & PATTERN
WATER FORM & STRUCTURE
SKETCH DEVELOPMENT
WATER PATTERN AND LANDSCAPE
THE CABIN MEETING THE WATER AND LAND
LANDSCAPE FORMS A SHAPE-TO WELCOME THE WATER
MY DESIGN INTENTION IS BASED ON THE WATER PATTERN AND MOVEMENT TO FORM A UNIQUE PROTECTIVE LAYER AROUND INNISFREE. I ANALYSED THE UNIQUE WATER PATTERN AROUND THE INNISFREE WHERE-THE LAND MEETS THE WATER. AS THE SITE LOCATION FOR THE CABIN IS ON THE SHORE LINE OF ISLAND. AN INTERESTING INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE WATER AND LAND. THE REFRACTION OF WATER HITTING THE LAND, OVERTAKING THE LAND OVER THE YEARS. THE CABIN BECOMES AN INTERSECTION POINT FOR THE WATER THAT FLOWS INTO THE SHORE LINE AND CONNECTS THE ISLE OF INNISFREE INTO THE FUTURE.