Currently, there is hardly any piece of nature we humans haven't touched or had an impact on. Because of this, we have greatly damaged and desensitized our connection with it reducing our usual awe-inspired reaction from its sublime quality to an everyday indifference. And worse - ecosystems and organisms we are seemingly so separate from have deteriorated to only a fraction of what they used to be because of our influence. My pathway and pavilions are intended to bring our attention back to these endangered animals and plants of the sea to raise awareness for the damage we've caused. Using the uncanny and abstract forms of these species I wanted to make architectural follies that would recreate that sublime reaction from nature we've fallen out of touch with and showcase a side of nature we normally wouldn't see. Earnst Haeckel, a zoologist who illustrated and documented many of the animals and plants I used in my design had the same intention when he originally set out to catalog them. He wanted to show the people of his time a side of nature they might not have known even existed.

Perspective Render

I based the majority of my design on Haeckel's Mollusk and Octopus plates having these uncanny and endangered plants and animals sprawl out as monuments to their real-world counterparts to instill a new sense of wonderment in the landscape and in these remote lifeforms revitalizing that sublime quality.

Plan Render

Ceiling Render

Detail Render - Coral Pavilion

Exploded Axon - Coral Pavilion

So often it's we who have an impact on these creatures with our pollution and modern ways of living, I thought it would be interesting for a change to have them be the ones who illicit a response and hopefully a change in us.