My project attempts to use architecture storytelling to rebuild our connection with the forest and fire. The design proposal is seeking to find a symbiotic response that would resonate with the local ecology and the changing conditions of Sadiman Forest.
The project proposes an alternative time-based architectural intervention inside the Sadiman Forest which attempt to align with the cycle of the forest regeneration. At the same time, the design provides temporal spaces for educational and recreational purposes. The architecture emerges, evolves, dies and re-emerges with the forest.
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING The project is a speculation of how architecture could place itself in time, culture and nature through its death and rebirth.
TIMELINE & CYCLE People perform fire ritual as an act of remembering, and for the passing of knowledge. My architecture integrates into this cycle of growing, death and rebirth.
From the Gate Way to the Forest
People sit surrounding a bonfire. Structures were mostly taken down, only parts of the bamboo remain. They wrap their blanket around, celebrating their grown trees and the final night in the forest.
House and dwellings in Indonesian tradition are more than an assemblage of building materials in construction. The architecture inside the forest is more creature-like.
The creature evolves with the forest. Visitors and the villages can weave around the bamboo structure to create shelters like a primitive man.
FOREST WATCHER detects the winds and weather conditions, giving an indication to people whether or not it is safe to conduct the burning.
TREE HUGGERS
The large-scale industrial intervention to the landscape is the cause of destructive forest fire that could have been beneficial to the forest regeneration.
