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Land

Land

Architecture as landscape — a project where building and terrain become indistinguishable, each shaping the other.

A land-focused project in dialogue with topography.

Project Narrative

Corner perspective of apartment building with dark and warm-toned facade panels
01Concept

Land begins not with a building but with the earth itself. The project explores how architecture can emerge from topographic manipulation — cutting, folding, and terracing the ground to create habitable spaces that feel carved from the landscape rather than placed upon it.

02Design Process

Digital terrain modelling allowed the team to sculpt the landscape and test how water, light, and circulation would behave across the modified topography. The design evolved through an iterative dialogue between architectural intention and the land's inherent logic.

03Execution

Retaining walls in rammed earth and gabion create the project's architectural vocabulary — massive, textural, and rooted in the geology of the site. Planted terraces cascade down the hillside, blurring where structure ends and garden begins.

04Outcome

Land challenges the conventional boundary between architecture and landscape design. The result is a project that belongs entirely to its place — an earthwork that happens to shelter human life.

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