The Floating Folly is a product of Design + Make’s Term 1 Core Studio brief ‘See and Amplify the Landscape’. The project aims to enable the development of design-make approaches driven by considerations of site and materials to create built works that are deeply embedded in Hooke Park’s physical and material landscape. Students’ design process began from the perspective of amplifying a site – in place of that site serving as a mere location. The selected site is a boundary condition encountered at the edge of Hooke Park, where the forest meets its contrapoint – the not forest – creating a stark contrast when crossing one side to the other. Due to the site’s remote location, analog methods were tested to hang the structure within the trees, resulting in a sense of floating, while simultaneously producing a structure that is a contrasting simple to the chaos surrounding it, resulting in a folly. It invites people to explore and unravel their own understanding of what it does for them.