Description

Situated on the grounds of Civitella Ranieri, a 15th century Italian castle, the Shelter of Belonging is a place of respite that welcomes both human and nonhuman inhabitants. The section drawings depict the installation, which is a wooden-framed structure that supports a series of habitats for local fauna -- including bats, birds, and solitary bees, as well as smaller terrestrial animals. The habitats reflect moments in the walls of the castle specifically alluding to spaces where wildlife dwell in close proximity to human life. The structures also provide seats for human visitors to rest in a neighborly manner. This drawing uses section cuts through the design model to compose a series of speculative wall profiles. In the way that the installation design was inspired by composing fragments of the castle walls, the drawings here suggest an idea of re-using those same fragments to recompose another series of inhabitable walls.

Drawings exhibited in Section as Cosmogram: From the Heavens to the Earth, curated by David Salomon.