Integrated Life Journey of Birds - Recrossing A New Nature within Oslo Urban Region
Description
The diploma topic starts from the observation of birds (occupants of the landscape pattern), aiming to explore a new composition of land by admiring the natural creatures birds as independent living entity and looking for their settlements in the tamed wildness and urbanized grounds.
The project aims to create a “natural pattern” in urban context, which is more ideal for birds to reside and take as the stopover in their migratory routes. The wetland is a complex in natural forms and taken as an inspirational model to study its composition, its layering, and its ecosystem.
With the understanding of the natural composition, back to the site Hovindammen, water plays the priority and its substrate in varied forms negotiate varied scales, surfaces, and spaces. The project starts to propose a stream which mimics the natural flows from upstream to downstream, the flowing water rate progressively decreases when passing by varied patches( patterns), generating within different proportions different micro land forms.
The form is the revealer of a new relationship, a new nature, and a new aesthetic. The encountered journey unfolds on the shared land between birds and people. This project is an exaggeration of the moments, when birds reside here, and their beautiful life journey happens partly here, when the artificial water spaces are re-written by the natural narrative.