Huw Turner of Collins+Turner with Professor Martin Bryant
When we claim that a built form is responsive to landscape, do we know it is actually listening? In this studio, we explore the ideas around form-making in landscape. To do that, we need to not only know landscape, but also what its relationship is with building. If we can make built form responsive to landscape, humans have potential to read landscape and care for it. In doing so, we might show that it is possible to achieve a relationship with landscape and the qualities that sustain us.
When we make built form, we need to know that it is not only informed by landscape, but it informs landscape. In this way, we decolonise the universal forms of architecture, encourage an appreciation of biodiversity and decarbonisation, and generate a culture that has equity for humans and non-humans. Working collaboratively, architecture and landscape architecture pairings, in dialogue, students develop a public building within an expansive external (landscape) interface that merges the two.