Vassiliki K. Demakis

The objective of this project was to design an outdoor space for Fall, Summer, and Spring. The spaces had to have an overall theme and had to provide seating as well as landscape throughout the specified areas.

The main concept for this project was to have people experience the worst aspects of the seasons. For Summer, the space was open to the west, where the direction of sunlight is the harshest. Seating was also only located in between walls that would bounce the heat off each other. For Fall, wind can be strong, and it generally travels from the north, so a wind funnel was created with walls to take in the wind and funnel it through several pathways. Seating was also located in the areas where the wind is coming from. For the Spring space, rain is a prominent type of weather, so the space is located in a valley where water can accumulate.

The positioning of the walls and the angled positioning of the wood pieces create an organized chaos that visually interacts with the actual chaos of being in the space and experiencing the worst aspects of the seasons.