Great Migration Safari

“Architecture is not only about space and form, but it also provides a space for movement and actions. “

The great animal migration has a long history in East Africa. This major project uses mapping as a tool to notate the great migration, discussing the contradictions between human activities and wildlife in recent years. By extracting clues from animal habitats, local traditional culture, and spatial arrangement of tribes, the project conceives an illusion where these systems could co-exist in nature, casting architecture as notations.

Through analyzing the movement of different systems, the project regards architecture as fragments that construct, consolidate, and mark these movement trajectories. The fragments are transformed from sequence and notations, they are as large as a path running through the whole project, a viewing platform tracking flamingo’s flight path, or as small as a solar panel, a swing, and a handrail which marks the existence of different systems. They are attached to this undulating landscape and form the context of this journey.

Meanwhile, due to illegal hunting, farm expansion, and loss of animal habitats, after many years, if everything is destructed, memories will be preserved through these architectural fragments and tell people the stories that once happened here.