Category: Ellen McElroy
A5 | Hana Kang, Mary Anne William, Ellen McElroy
Ellen McElroy, Hana Kang, Mary Anne William | Assignment 04
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).
A2 | Ellen McElroy
A1 | Ellen McElroy
My grandmother’s house is situated in a dense, informal neighborhood in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Due to the informality of the neighbourhood, it was difficult to gather visual information or references and for such reasons, I had to rely predominantly on my own memory as well as old photographs of the space to produce my drawings. When envisioning the space, the broken concrete and asphalt pathways are what first comes to mind, followed by the stray cats roaming around, and the abundance of sandals outside my grandmother’s house every time we held gatherings. The site plan captures these physical qualities primarily through the ground conditions while the neighbourhood plan highlights its informality, density and roof typologies.