The shovel became an etching tool to delicately carve out spaces for people.
For those unfamiliar with art history: a ‘relief’ is a carving of a material to reveal structure and form.
Here we have our project: Landscape in Relief.

By so minimally altering the existing slope we acknowledge the history of how this particular surface of the earth came to be…and by right of Dune HAI’S design philosophy, we began with what we had.
We worked with the existing grades of this insane slope to carve out spaces that would host friends, family and community for all the occasions.

Dune Hai is anti- terraforming without ecological cause. Landscape in Relief brings people into the canyon without domineering or shaping to human wills but rather interjects lightness, color and love.

Built by Greenhand Landscape, Photography by Caitlin Atkinson, Ceramics by Pala Ceramics