Man-architecture-nature is now seen as a more intertwined formation of an overall environmental and philosophical, as well as representational relationships. However, two dimensional representation of landscape such as plans and elevations struggle against the immediacy and directness of three-dimensional experience. Perspective drawings, on the other hand, albeit a seductive and experiential feature, lack the precision of an architectural drawing. This thesis investigates anti-perspective visual representation of a garden, finding the potentialities of three dimensional spaces in two dimensional medium. The garden 'Parc des Buttes Chaumont' was studied and re-conceived, then cropped and framed in a sequence of moments with temporal, spatial and thematic displacements. Framing allows extreme formal manipulations of the sequence, and collage is used as a tool to juxtapose these frames, in vertical organization, thus generating a series of synoptic visions of a complex whole. An orchestrated collage of the tree dimensional world and the illusory of the two dimensional understanding, the drawings convey the sense of depth without perspective, as well as offer multiplicity of interpretations and experiences.
Status: School Project
Location: Paris, France