Interlace: Weaving Tales Through Trails

The project reimagines a degraded riverside landscape affected by erosion, extraction, and underuse, transforming it through a sensitive, landscape-driven approach. Restoration and movement are interwoven to create a cohesive spatial framework that responds to the site’s natural contours. Varied slopes and open uplands are connected through a continuous network of trails, offering diverse experiential sequences. As visitors move across the terrain, they encounter shifting ground textures and layered vegetation that evolve with seasonal change. This gradual transition from higher land to the river’s edge encourages exploration while reinforcing ecological resilience, allowing the landscape to recover, adapt, and function as a dynamic public realm shaped by both natural processes and human engagement.

The design process follows a series of integrated approaches that work together to enhance both function and experience. New pathways are introduced and seamlessly connected to the existing trail network, ensuring continuity and intuitive movement throughout the site. The terrain is carefully shaped to accommodate planned activities while being stabilized through strategic planting that supports long-term landscape health. Seasonal vegetation is layered to introduce plant species that respond to changes throughout the year, enriching the site’s character and visual interest over time. Ground textures and surface finishes are applied to pathways and activity areas to create an immersive, natural experience that reinforces a strong connection to the landscape.

Exploring landscape-driven solutions by incorporating tactile elements as the core of the user experience to enhance interactivity. Utilizing vegetation as key components of both place-making and space-making to design public areas through nature-based solutions. Addressing the need to design with respect to context of terrain, grain and also considering the physical context around. And simultaneously experimenting with contour modulation using grasshopper in a 3d integrated module.