Ripple as an eye
Water actsas the medium through which the landscape perfumes itself, capturing both visible and invisible elements of its surroundings from light to air. It reflects the environment through the curves of the waves, showing the essence of the landscape. I propose using water as the language of the land, performing the land’s movements through time.
By designing an underwater landscape using local rocks and marble, visitors can observe the geological history through the movements of light and ripple. The site, Loch Ba, is located within the Mull Central Complex, a region shaped by three volcanic centers. These centers are like gigantic ripples that form the land with rings of magma.
Over the past 50 million years, wind erosion has sculpted the caldera, erasing traces of the ancient volcanoes. The underwater landscape is designed to guide visitors’ view, linking them to these lost geological features and revealing the touches of the wind erosion. This design aims to preserve and narrate the history of the landscape, inviting visitors to engage with the formation of Mull.
