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Landscape in Relief

This project sits on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.

The shovel became an etching tool to delicately carve out spaces for people in the hillside.

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.

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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 terraces that would host friends, family and community for all the occasions. Dry stack walls become seating and tables and an amphitheater as center stage floats above the canyon below.

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Dune Hai is anti-terraforming without ecological cause.

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Landscape in Relief brings people into the canyon without domineering or shaping to human wills but rather interjects lightness, color and love.

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Project Build: Greenhand Landscape

Photography: Caitlin Atkinson

Ceramics: Pala Ceramics

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Dune Hai is an artistically driven landscape architecture studio that is enthusiastic about planting forward design, elevating simple materials, and incorporating cross-cultural aesthetics for unique gardens that enhance a site and increase stewardship.