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Project Proposal for a International Garden Festival
Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada
2022
Architecture installation design
Dwellers is a playful design proposal for a Grand-Métis Park, Quebec, Canada. Paying respect to all sorts of living non-human creatures that live in the surrounding forests of the Grand-Métis Park (and beyond) Dwellers formalizes these creatures into the series of animistic and functional occupiable installations. Familiar yet peculiar, each installation has a different form and color.
Scattered around different parts of the park, they are “hiding” to be discovered. Once found the installations invite visitors to come closer and engage with them. Visitors can interact with the Dwellers however they like. You can sit on them, you can lay on them, you can climb on them, or if you want you can pet them or even hug them. Dwellers are friendly architectural installations that offer a space to rest on and reflect with the surrounding landscape of the park.
As often architecture is seen as something static and lifeless, Dwellers installation plays with that idea by staging interaction between humans and non-humans in hope to expend our solidarity and respect towards other species.
As a friendly “inhabitant” of the park Dwellers are trying to “blend in” by also offering a shelter to surrounding birds. At the highest point of the structures there are incorporated bird feeders for the local birds.