As a site located in a town with visitors interested in nature and arts, I am proposing a Foraging Sight. A site to learn and experience foraging, experience a spectacle from foraging, and consume goods that came from foraging.
The program is separated and clustered under the two large roofs, with each building referencing aspects of the reciprocal duality of civilization and wilderness.
The linear building located by the road is for the consumption of knowledge and food, by housing the education sequence, educational kitchen, store, and a café. The linearity can be understood to be spatially organized sequentially, reflecting the progressive qualities of civilization.
The field condition building located by the forest is for the production of raw materials to food.
It houses the covered outdoor drying racks, an experimental winery, and packaging and storing rooms. The spatial field can be understood to reflect the conditions of the wilderness where there isn’t a linear directionality.
With the buildings reflecting, framing, and hanging the landscape on its surfaces and spaces while also straddling the line between interfering on the landscape with its vast scale but yielding to the landscape by attempting to interact gently with the ground, the two buildings position themselves on the spectrum of the constructed duality of civilization and wilderness which we mediate with our perceptions.
Monson, Maine, United States
Proposal