Ecotone
(The transitional area between the river Mimram and Welwyn Garden city)

Ecotone is a transitional area that allows not only new compositions but also new components.
What is the ecotone between ‘nature’ and ‘built environment’?
Where is the ecotone of the physical boundaries that bind our privacy?
Where is the ecotonal area of the community of foxes who tends to live in a territory of 5 to 50 square km, and human who chose to live in a territory of 12 to 88 square meter of the standard?
What is the ecotone between the activities we assign to ‘day’ and the ones we assign to ‘night’?
What is the ecotone between the time of ‘solitude’ and the time that we ‘share’ with others?
Where is the ecotone of what is available and what is imaginable?
And in the end what if; Places are not the container of our activities, rather, they are the container of the time that we spend ?

The following Project is a house which extends itself along a wetland created between the edge of Welwyn Garden city and the River Mimram. This is a 600 meters long territory. It starts from an existing house in WGC. Part of the house is invaded by water. Those parts are release themselves on the water floating around. There is no walk way and boats are the only solution to reach different parts of the house. The existing Runway on the Site ( Panshanger Aerodrome is the site) remains as the only dry land which functions as a runway during the day and a street for gatherings at night.

Ecotone

A journey through the house

#1 A house on the edge of Welwyn Garden City

The cut to let the flow of the water inside the house

#1 Side Elevation

#2 A room with a dining table

#2- Exploded Axo

#2 Cross Section

#3 A Saeting area & #4 A screen, a rack

#3
A Screen to project on/A laundry drying rack/light steel frame/plastic barrels to enable floating/waterproof, translucent awning/when there is no water it sitts on the ground
#4
A floating seating area/provided space to place projectors /provided protected space for fire in the cold nights
/wooden structure / light steele frame to hold the awning
plastic barrels to anable floating/waterproof, translucent awning/when there is no water it sitts on the ground

#3 Elevation

#5 A tower

#5- Exploded Axo

#5 Plan & Elevation

#5 Plan
Near the existing farms on the river side

#5 Elevation
Near the existing farms on the river side

#6 The runway/The island

Parts of the runway have counter weight structures which enables the parts to open up at the night. They become shelters on the runway/street at night...