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Adam Larsen – Assignment 3: Supernatural

 First Site: Nitobe Garden

For my site visit to Nitobe Garden, I sat at four different spots for five minutes each, recording what I heard around me and the general smell.

This final map shows sound discs rotated to the north axis. Note how majority of the blue human sounds are directed toward the highway, and red animal sounds are directed to a large cluster of trees.

Second Site: Jericho Beach

At Jericho Beach I walked toward the water, taking frequent stops to record what I heard and smelled.

This final map shows all of the sound discs aligned to the north and positioned at their corresponding stop points. You can see all of the animal sounds (red) directed toward a general area, revealing the rough location of frogs. You can also map all of the natural sounds (yellow) beginning and ending as I moved through the wooded area.

Assignment 03 Soha Heydarian

Watercolour 11 x 8.5

When I went to Spanish Banks it was quite rainy and I wanted to capture the gloomy feeling with watercolour. In contrast at Nitobe Gardens, it was sunny when I went, and I drew the overall beautiful, lush greens. I went over the watercolor with a black pen after, trying to capture more of the textures that I felt when on the site. At Nitobe, we couldn’t touch the moss but I could still perceive it to be soft through my sight. While I was at Spanish Banks the rain didn’t completely deter me from immersing myself in the landscape and using my sense of touch but it was definitely a hindrance. The wooden logs while rough, felt smoother with the rain on them.

 

A3 – Alena Bergeron

NITOBE GARDEN

Discovering Nitobe Through Sound: 

 

Exploring Hard/ Soft -scapes with pen and watercolour 

    • Hardscapes: Stone, Gravel, Rocks, Cement, Wood
    • Softscapes: Moss, Shrubs, Trees, Grass, Water

 

Topography

 

Site Sketches/ Notes

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Multi-Scape Sensory List

SPANISH BANKS

Discovering Spanish Banks Through Sound: 

 

Exploring Hard/ Soft -scapes with pen and watercolour 

    • Hardscapes: Rocks, Gravel, Cement, Wood, Steel
    • Softscapes: Sand, Shrubs, Trees, Grass, Water

 

Topography

 

Site Sketches/Notes

                       

 

Multi-Scape Sensory List

A3 – Cedric Li

 

 

Site visit notes:

Through the experience of Nitobe and Spanish banks, similarities can be seen between the designed bridges and the human movement.

On the passive level, bridges are stationary entities, and serve to transition between space.  On the active level, human movement, especially when playing sports seem to have frames which  with the shape of the passive landscape. When the player is awaiting the ball and forms a platform with their arm; when they are at maximum elasticity and anticipating the ball mid-air; when they are going for a block…

The weather and immediate conditions of the site such as wind/rain tend to affect the human movement more than the built environment.

A3: Hedric Bernardino

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1. Speed and resulting sound of the waterfall
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1. Seemingly more compact sand, closer to the road, resulting in very little submergence in each step. Looser sand approaching the water, resulting in deeper steps and slowing the rhythm of one’s movement.
2. Stepping on piles of seaweed or grass? When stepped on some sort of particles or perhaps even tiny bugs disperse.

A3 | Ellen McElroy

For this assignment, I focused on exploring different ways our sense of touch perceives our surroundings. I categorized my experience of touch in two main ways, the first one being physical touch, to which I interpret as our encounter with nature (groundscape) and the second being atmospheric touch, or in other words nature’s encounter with us (intensities of light and wind).

 

Assignment 3- YiLe Chen

Nitobe Garden

(Sound Investigation)

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Nitobe Garden-Experience List

         

 

  Nitobe Garden-Sketch

Spanish Banks

(Sound Investigation)

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SpanishBank Noise

Spanish Banks-Experience List                   

Spanish Banks -Sketch

 

A3 – Allegra Haynes

 Exploring the natural and manmade elements in the Nitobe Garden and Spanish Banks Beach, I focused on how their physical elements create visual compositions (as if in a painting or, well, drawing…) and how these moments may be observed by visitors.   

While the Nitobe Garden is undoubtedly a visually stunning landscape that is highly manicured, seeing its hidden infrastructure is like catching it tell a secret.  Duly hidden so as to not take away from the garden’s serenity, but equally necessary for the maintenance of the garden year-round, the infrastructural elements are various and numerous throughout and can pull visitors out of the garden’s crafted “natural” landscape.


The two views above show the west and east views of the beach. The first one looks west toward the UBC peninsula where no development is seen on the mountain across the water. Compared to the east-facing view, the landscape reads differently on the ground as the downtown highrises fill the horizon. I found I spent most of my time looking away from the east view as I preferred the “natural” landscape more.

I chose to capture the instances below as they are human interventions with visual compositions that were made of natural and manmade objects created by and experienced by people.


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