#spatial experience

Shifting levels to break the monotony of a flat walkway. 📐🌊

When you’re designing entirely over water, a simple path can easily become boring. In this sketch for the lagoon masterplan, I’m experimenting with a split-level boardwalk system to deliberately disrupt the pace of movement and create distinct spatial experiences.

Dropping down brings you right to the water's edge,closer to the boats and the splash of the tide. Stepping up lifts you into the shade of the tree canopy, giving you a wider view of the horizon. It’s a simple shift in altitude, but it completely changes how you interact with the landscape as you walk through the cluster.

Sarah Oppenheimer 

D-33, 2012 Aluminum, glass and existing architecture. Total dimensions variable. Installation view: PPOW. New York, NY. USA, 2012.

"I tend to think the whole of landscape experience is really spatial. It's a spatial experience. We like space... I mean, I do. I'm a space freak, really.

Actually, my sister once said to me... she thought space was God. I thought that was rather poetic in a way. "