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The Evening Primroses is growing on the dry dunes and they are always rolling around after there life in order to dispersal their own seeds like a Tumbleweed. This design is trying to use the characteristics of this plant to dispersal the seeds not only of its own but everyone on the dunes by insert artificial structure inside the plant.

It is both a transport and a home for the seeds. The seeds are easily to stop and grow on the artificial structure and their will be a collection of all the plants on the dry dunes. The architecture itself is growing as the plants are growing inside. Finally it will become a seeds recreational vehicle on the dunes.

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There are several kinds of architecture for the animals in the Animal Living Community. This one is a typical architecture with the function of a restaurant for the rabbits. In the centre of the restaurant is my cooking for the rabbits: a wonderful carrot meal with marram grass.

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The architecture will keep on changing its nature and develop itself after receiving feedback from the nature. All of these changes will happen in a twenty year process with four phases.

These abstract time-based relationship lines show the evolution on the dunes and will become the framework of the new system.

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Work Process

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‘3x3’ Grid

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system, I am trying to develop an ecological way of designing the system and architecture.

There are three stages in terms of vertical. The first stage which is the largest scale thing includes everything is called ‘system’, the second part which contains a class of things is called community and the third stage which is the basic element in the huge system is architecture. The relationship here is the architecture composes the community and the communities compose the system. The change of the architecture will finally have the influence of the system.

In terms of horizontal, each stage here has relationship to the three related ecologies of environmental, social and mental influence which is described by Felix Guattari (2000)’. The change in the environmental world will finally have influence in the mental world.

The sand dune is transforming all the time, both in underground and overground. Every participant on the site has influence to the change of the dunes, especially the importing architecture.

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Scope Drawing

This scope drawing is a time-based perspective of the system which shows both the story happens among all the participants on the site and the landscape view change on the dunes. It is made up of four parts which in each part there is a critical time of the change on the dunes.

The back ground is the perspective of the transforming sand dune. The oval in each part shows the energy cycle in that period and in the bottom is the time line. The ‘+’ means the output of energy while the ‘-’ means the input of energy. The narrow triangles show the harmful influence to the floras and the dashed triangles show the energy feedback in some parts of the system.

In this drawing I am trying to connect the space to the time, the relationship in one critical time to the relationship in the whole time-based system changing process and the relationship among the original system, the new system and the importing architecture.

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Part 1 - Disappearing Boundary

Time Zone: -5 YEARS - 0 YEARS

In the original sand dune system we can see the original boundary which was made of trees and bushes is becoming weaker in prevent the sand from blowing into the inland and more aggressive to the floras.

The arrows are showing the two main aggression relationship which are caused by the rabbits and the scrubs. The system is losing its self sufficient ability and has reach the edge of collapse.

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Part 2 - Plant the dispersal controller

Time Zone - 5 YEARS - 10 YEARS

We limit the living area of the scrubs by control the seeds dispersal. The three kinds of seeds hotel are planted onto the dunes in different critical area such as the border of the paths. They are cutting off the influence of the scrub aggression.

As the hotels are able to stop the seeds from flying around, the marram grass is able to grow much more and better in the place where we plant the architecture. As the seeds are able to stay in some place inside the architecture where they can not stay before, the grass are able to live in some critical area. The dunes are going to become some new form which was impossible naturally.

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Part 3 - Rabbit breeding centre

Time Zone - 15 YEARS - 20 YEARS

The rabbit restaurants are able to catch some of the rabbits, however, the rabbits will develop after that and they will no longer drop into the simple trap. It means only a simple kind of architecture is not strong enough to control the rabbits population. We need a huge and complex trap system in the sand dune system in order to watch and control the life of the rabbits.

The architecture are going to be planted onto different kinds of area in the dunes and then begin to cut off the influence of the rabbits attack. The decrease of the rabbits population will let the marram grass grow better and the transforming of the dunes will become more intense.

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Part 4 - Reconstructing the dunes

Time Zone - 20 YEARS LATER

The sand dune system is the living world of the rabbits. The world will become more interesting as the construction of new system which contains both overground system and underground system. Some part of the dunes will become higher and some parts will separate from the others.

The architecture connects the underground system to the over ground system. The dunes will become more complex and the new system will be a self sufficient and self regulation system like an new constructed island on the west coast line of UK.

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In the final term, I wish to develop my project in two directions. In one way I wish to develop a larger range of influence and consequences. In another way I wish to develop more details about the material, the construction and how does the architecture work.

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Picture 1 - Section of the Seeds Hotel A

The hotel is made of natural material on the site. All the parts of the hotel come from the original plants on the Braunton Burrows sand dune system.

Main structure - Local shrub branches

Keel - Marram grass stalk

Walls - Local leaves, shells, gravel ..

Doors & Windows - Marram grass wheat

Beds - Local flowers & Marram grass roots

Construction method - Winding, Rolling

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At the end of the second term, I found myself much more clear about my project than before and I am on my way designing something based on my own understanding of architecture.

This project is located on the biggest sand dune system of England on the coast lines of UK. There is an original system on the sand dunes and there goes something wrong with it. I am focus on the relationship in the system and I am planning to change some relationship there. What I am going to design is a new type of ecosystem with a series of new relationship and an architecture which is part of the new system.

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Pin-up

It will be much better if I pin-up like this. I will do it in the coming New York Crits.

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Picture 1  -  Context Drawing

The Braunton Burrows is on the north-west side of Cornwall which is in the south-west corner of England. In this drawing we can see the original sand dune system on the site. The energy flow, material cycle and water cycle among all the participants there.

The two kinds of plants are coming into the sand dune system in 2 directions, they meet each other in the grid space on the sand dunes and form some relationship among the rabbits and human being.  There is a life cycle between the sky and the ground.

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Picture 2  -  Flora Composition

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Picture 3  -  Scope Drawing

This Drawing comes from the previous sketch 1. Zoom in into the perspective of the sand dune system, we can see the sea and the beach is on the west side and the farmland is on the east side. The sand dunes lay in the middle from the south to the north.

The flora are growing on the east side while the scrub are on the west side. The large amount of rabbits are everywhere on the dunes. The human being is coming to this site after the new system is created.

The energy comes from the sun and is transfered by the plants into the ecosystem. The energy begin to flow from the plants to the animals which are rabbits here and then flow from the animals to human beings. The excreta of both animals and people will give the material to the earth and then feed back to the plants.

The 2 yellow arrows on the drawing show the most serious problem which are happening on the dunes:

1. The vigorous scrub is devouring the living space of the precious weak flora.

2. The rabbits are eating these flora and making these flora weaker and weaker.

What I am going to do is to insert an architecture into this system, cut off these 2 connections of scrub-flora and rabbit-flora, then control the relationship among the participants here and create a new type of system. There will be 2 design here and each will cut off one connection.

All of these changes will happen in a 10-Years process with 10 phases.

Phase 1,2,3

We are going to control the influence from the scrub to the flora in the first 3 years by control the seeds dispersal on the site. The architecture will firstly have some relationship with the plants since they are inserted into the system.

Phase 4,5

After the end of the battle between the flora and the scrub. The architecture will begin to have some relationship with the rabbits since the 4th year. We are going to control the quantity of the rabbits by giving them some accommodation.

Later on

The architecture will turn to some kind of human accommodation after we make the balance between the rabbit and the flora. People will begin to come to this site and have some human activities.

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Picture 4  -  Seeds Hotel

As we have already know that there are 3 pieces of space occupied by different kind of plant from sketch 3. I designed 3 different kind of seeds hotel to have different influence to the site from west to east in order to control the seeds dispersal and made this 1:1 drawing.

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Picture 5  -  Seeds Hotel A

The flora are living in the area close to the beach and the seeds of these flora are easily to be blown into the sea. As the wind direction is changing all the time, we have to prevent the seeds from flying into the sea.

This architecture is made of some natural material that we can get from the site itself. The leaves of marram grass become the main structure and the dense roots are made into the wall.

The shape of the architecture is used to stop the seeds flying when the wind blows to the west and let the seeds flying through when the wind blows to the east.

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Picture 6  -  Seeds Hotel B

There grows both the flora and the scrub in the middle battle area. As we wish to stop the scrub from devouring the living area of the flora, we need to stop the seeds from going to the west.

This architecture is also made of some natural material which we can get from the site itself. The branch of some kind of small trees become the main structure and the leaves and ears of marram grass become the network to capture the seeds.

The architectural form changes from close to sparse. The leaves network stay closer to the west side in order to stop the seeds from flying through and become sparse to the east side. The sands are able to go through the network as there are hole big enough for the sands while the seeds are only able to travel from the west to the east.

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Picture 7  -  Seeds Hotel C

The area close to the farmland are covered by the trees and bushes. They are good to stop the sands from blowing to the inland and we need to keep these scrub living in this area.

The architecture here is half natural and half artificial. The main structure is made of the branches of the trees and the surface is made of artificial material such as plaster or something else.

As the trees are blowing to this shape by wind already, what we need to do is just add some artificial surface onto the branches. Both the sands and the seeds are not able to go through this architecture from the west to the east as there are no windows on the surface while everything is able to go from the east to the west.

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Picture 8  -  Composition of the Seeds Hotels

In this 1:1 drawing I made a composition of the seeds hotels and made a more complex architecture here. This new kind of architecture will have more complex influence to the environment and is able to make a larger change on the dunes. Possibly we can put this kind of architecture into some critical points.

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Picture 9  -  Rabbit Restaurant I

Here comes the second design of my project which is used to control the number of the rabbits on the dunes.

I am cooking for the rabbits and here we can see a wonderful carrots meal with delicious evening promises and marram grass. Actually, this will be the last dinner for the rabbits because the function of this architecture will not always to be a restaurant.

The rabbits can see a collection of carrots leaves and marram grass when they come to the architecture and here they get 2 choices. One is to jump over these nice plants and run away from having a nice meal. The other one which most of the rabbits will choose is to slow down and try to enjoy the plants here.

When they slow down and get closer to the leaves, they will fall down into the architecture and never touch the leaves on the ground floor. However, they will find a much better dinner waiting for them underground - The Carrot Meal.

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Picture 10  -  Rabbit Restaurant II

This architecture is buried inside the dunes and is made up of two parts. The artificial surface which is the boundary and the natural column which is the main structure.

The surface is able to let the grass roots go through in order to keep them alive while it is impossible for an rabbit to go outside. The column of the architecture is also the meal for the rabbits. The architecture will collapse at the same time when the rabbits finish their last dinner and then the rabbits are caught. People will come to the architecture and get the rabbit and then transfer the energy into a higher level of the food chain.

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In this week, I began to transfer sketches into final drawings. To think about more details about my project, I worked again on the flora which were brought back from the site.

There comes a great change of my project this week. I stopped keeping on design a human-scale building which is a real thing on the sand dune and then began to think about nature-scale architecture with the consequences after the construction.

At this time I became to realize that the architecture should not only be something for human beings but something for everything in the natural world. The meaning of ‘hotel’ is not only accommodation for the human but also accommodation for the seeds, the rabbits, the wind, the sunshine, the rain and everything around us.

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Picture 1

Scope Drawing of my project. In this drawing I was trying to make a composition of my previous work, which is able to show the zoom in from Cornwall to Braunton Burrows and the relationship between the sand dune system and the ecological environment.

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Scanning of the Flora which were brought back from Braunton Burrows

Continue design the architecture shape by abstract from the relationship. As I was designing the shape I was still thinking about what’s happening inside the architecture and what will the experience of the tourists be.

I kept on designing my architecture in a human scale till this week and I wish the architecture is able to do these kind of things:

1. To have some reaction to the winds and be able to use the wind energy.

2. To have some reaction to the sunshine and be able to use the sun energy.

3. Be able to capture and release the seeds.

4. Be able to catch the rabbits.

5. Be able to help storage the water for the sands.

As something for the human being, I wish to design a new type of mode between the human and the nature.

The architecture is moving and transforming all the time in order to do things above. People who live in this architecture will be have to move by the architecture and they will never decide the movement. The relationship here is they just follow the nature. They have to follow the nature and their lives will be slow down because they can not decide everything.

The experience in this architecture will make the tourists understand that our human beings must respect the nature and we are part of the nature. These tourists will become seeds of this new type of mode and then they will dispersal to everywhere in the world. This will become something like an eco-revolution which starts here on the sand dune system.

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Picture 1

The architecture turns to different directions by winds in order to capture the seeds with its largest face when wind blowing.

There is a core in the architecture which is not able to move. It is the centre of the architecture and the structure here insert into the sand deeply.

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Picture 2

There are several phases of the architecture generating. At first we put some basic structure into the sand dunes, then some plants will grow on and inside the structure. After a long time, these plants will make some walls and leave some doors and then some people come to the architecture. After people comes here, there will be some functions.

This sketch shows the second phase in which the plants are growing and rabbits are coming for the plants. We can see some rooms swinging in the wind above the core and the core was stabilized by the marram grass from the inside and the outside.

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Picture 3

In this sketch I was thinking about the experience of the tourists in the architecture.

We can see the red main structure, the blue roof to collect the rain, the waving wall, the baked rabbit and the transparent table and chair which shows the seeds dispersal inside the architecture.

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