Standard rain cycles have accelerated the erosion of a 5,000 year old sink hole within Devil’s Millhopper within Gainesville, Florida. My response focused on minimizing this, while creating homogeneous spaces that explore the temporal boundaries of Florida forestry. Integration of naturally occurring materials for structure operated as the initial step. Pine wood is utilized as structural members, with select ground matter combinations binding these elements to the slope.
How should we build along tenuous slopes? Recording the angular nature of existing trees revealed the necessary reactions for dwelling along a 45° plane. Analogous to how we occupy the Florida forest, shaping our direction in the face of natural obstacles, the spaces behave in the same regard; suggesting visitor procession by light along the solar axis as one circumvents the ‘A-frame’-like structure. Mapping the qualities of site discerned the region most susceptible to further erosion.
