The Power of the Narrative

An exploration of landscape narratives as a design methodology in wild natural landscapes.

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

A. Scheltema Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Nico Tillie (supervisor 1)
L.M. Calabrese (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2018 Annemette Scheltema
Workshop Experience Landscape Narratives Wadden Methodological Framework Sense of Place Wild Natural Landscape Noordpolderzijl
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Published Date

01-02-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Landscape narratives have the potential of being powerful design tools. Designing with narratives may provide new opportunities, shaping conditions for new possibilities and stories.

The project focuses on the gap between the theory of the landscape narratives and the practical application in the field; emphasizing the interconnection between the design elements which are essential for construction and the type of narrative. Starting from the theory of landscape narratives the spatial ways of the representation of time are discussed; followed by a further investigation of the way continuous landscape narratives may be translated into spatial architectural compositions which implicitly are presented in the materials, experiences, sequences and processes of landscape forming and resulting in a suggestion for a methodological framework for designing with landscape narratives, including instruments for analyzing, constructing the narrative, spatial translation and implementation.