Provoking Process
Challenging object-centric design to reveal landscape complexity

This project explored the complexity of landscape beyond its role as the “passive other” to architecture. By questioning picturesque traditions and object-focused design habits, I examined how landscapes hold dynamic patterns, processes, and programs that are often overlooked. The exercise encouraged me to dismantle these biases and see landscapes not as background, but as active systems with ecological, social, and aesthetic potential.

Through iterative design studies and Rhino modeling, I investigated landscapes as relational frameworks rather than static objects. This process helped me develop new tools for conceptualizing form, space, and systems, and pushed me to value the messy and generative qualities of landscape. The project set the foundation for my design approach, emphasizing landscapes as processes to engage with rather than simply surfaces to frame.