Over the past several decades, architecture and landscape architecture have had a pre-occupation with the contextualism of objects within nature. The Duck Blind is born out of a desire for contextualist double-readings, wherein architectural form "doubly functions" to exist in its own system while simultaneously within the system of its surrounding landscape, being both object and subject.

The duck blind’s exterior, shrouded in camouflage, seeks to hide within its pastoral setting, while the interior attempts to subvert the exterior’s camouflage with apertures and thresholds showcasing its internal high chromatic content. The goal of this intervention is to create an object which expresses an optic tensional relationship to its very context wherein the object oscillates from being one with and one against nature.

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The interlocked tessellation is based around a figuration of a triangle which reaps the benefits of the geodesic triangulation the planar triangulation of the double curved geometry.  Each of the structural pieces is double sided, integrally structuring the egg and imparting itself discretely on the composition of the interior and exterior. The bricks effectively mediates between the object’s internal and external identity crisis.

Inwardly, each of the figural bricks is covered with a high chromatic camouflage print, accentuating the schism between the interior and exterior, while on the exterior each brick is clad in a panel carrying a densely woven natural fiber. Harvested from palm fiber and colored using natural pigments, the raffia serves to mediate the internal brick with its surrounding environment.

/ Interior