The travelling transect: Capturing island dynamics, relationships and atmospheres in the water landscapes of the Canaries

  • Braae E
  • Diedrich L
  • Lee G
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The practice of landscape architecture is most often a cultivation of open space alongside an open-ended dialogue with the presence and complexities of the cultural and natural features of places, usually resulting in projects generating site resolution rather than pure invention ex nihilo. However, when working with the more unpredictable qualities of sites as in water-made landscapes, designers often lack mapping and representational tools capable of capturing and expressing ephemeral qualities-dynamics, relationships and atmospheres. These abstract qualities, that exist over physical site conditions, correspond to the fields of natural sciences and to spatial aesthetics. The Travelling Transect method, inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's method of transareal travelling and transversal collecting of ephemeral information from site, informs our exploratory fieldwork in the water landscapes of the Canary Islands, adopting the working title Canarysect. Seeking altered expressions of the abstract qualities of places, we test three well-known tools: the sketch, the photo and the model in response to the site conditions that meet us along the journey. While

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Braae, E., Diedrich, L., & Lee, G. (2013). The travelling transect: Capturing island dynamics, relationships and atmospheres in the water landscapes of the Canaries. In Nordes 2013: Experiments in Design Research. Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2013.020

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