Found Landscapes: An Assemblage of Craft

<p>The found landscape is both the built and un-built spaces that we find ourselves in as a person born into a given environment. As we continue to grow out of the familiar, we move into crafting an assemblage out of our environment, where we civilize the wilderness and separate from it through a designed experience. The act of reducing landscapes to their commodified abstraction further severs their complexity as well as the layers of non-physical imprints that exist within all sites. The archival aspects of home through layered architectural drawing is used as a way of developing two speculative projects that are both a found landscape and a crafted assemblage. This past, present and future aspect of design, is examined through drawing overlays that are situated in a Toronto and Kyiv residence. This thesis redefines physical and metaphoric landscape narratives by exploring it through an attachment to place.</p>