Getting Lost in the Orchard

Inspired by traditional agricultural practices within The Black Forest, this project is centred around a series of garden walls. The project combines a goat farm with a housing scheme for those with dementia.

The project explores what it means to be lost within an environment, recognising the deterioration of the allocentric mind during the progression of dementia that removes one’s sense of place. It, therefore, seeks to reintroduce a sense of place by designing residents’ egocentric experiences within spaces. The wall becomes central to the residents’ understanding of the scheme, acting as a wayfinding device that emerges and dissolves into the landscape to safely allow residents to wander through framed views and landmarks, experiencing the landscape of the orchard.