The project recasts the role of nature and, more specifically, landscape in the context of contemporary architecture. In considering the possibilities of weird nature and weird landscape, the seminar posits that the imaging of landscape is a generative, rather than a representational tool. Using notions of fusion and fission, complex terrain defined by the interference between nature and artificiality was examined.

The process involves manipulation of the documentation of sites, objects, and spaces to engender multiple authenticities. Photographic and cinematographic techniques were combined with digital and analog modeling to produce a fusion between architectural form and forms germane to constructed natures. The design seeks to amplify latent environmental and atmospheric interactions in the interest of producing a landscape that has the capacity to integrate multiple concepts of nature.

The final proposal consists of discrete landscape objects, which act as constituents of an urban parkscape. The site was siutated on a portion of the LA River.