Vertical Stratum
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Situated in the mangrove swamps at Labrador Nature Reserve, the project opens an urgent conversation in relation to biodiversity and nature conservation in which the individual and the nation often neglect. The proposal seeks to establish an environmental ethnic and personal connections with the programmatic, spatial and architectural interpretations.
Vertical Stratum is a speculative framework of lightweight timber structure that weaves through the canopy and the roots of the mangrove trees. The structure resonates with the rhizomic mangrove structure in which the architecture is made up of an assemblage of a single timber element through interlocking joints to achieve lightness in the forest.
Following a structural grid which is informed by the mangrove trees, the joints of the timber element allows for the structure to either densify to become structural component or to layer by itself to form an enclosure of space.