Imaginary Landscape
Landscapes that exist between reality and imagination, exploring fictional, conceptual, and reimagined environments.
Imaginary landscapes represent spaces that blend the real and the speculative, from purely conceptual environments to reinterpretations of existing terrain. Designers use this framework to explore how landscapes can challenge perception, respond to emotional or philosophical ideas, and propose alternative relationships between people and their surroundings.
The community examines both fantastical and grounded approaches: dreamlike environments and poetic visions alongside practical interventions in post-industrial sites, heritage landscapes, and urban gardens that transform ordinary spaces into unexpected sanctuaries.
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A New Wood: A Spiritual Journey Through Forest Paths, Faith, and Free Will
Three elevated timber walkways through a dense forest reinterpret Little Red Riding Hood as a spatial system of choice and consequence.
A New Wood: Walking Through Little Red Riding Hood as Landscape Architecture
A shortlisted competition entry translates the Hero's Journey of a fairy tale into curving paths, timber pavilions, and deliberate disorientation.
Path Linked Forest: A Fairy Tale Becomes a Landscape of Choice and Discovery
Suily and Jieun Park reinterpret Little Red Riding Hood's journey as a network of paths where the forest itself tells the story.
Imposition: Architecture as Fairy Tale, Where the Forest Itself Deceives
A reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood turns Schwalmstadt's woods into a psychological landscape of choice, emotion, and illusion.
