Jake Mosher
We experience landscape through our senses. Sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound all combine to give the user a unique experience. The focus of today was on the sounds of different landscapes. From the beginning of the day, I was conscious of what I was hearing and how that affected how I felt in the landscape. At Gantry State Park on the riverside of Long Island City the sounds of the city were far enough removed from the site that it was a pleasant experience. As we got walking towards the current phase under construction the sounds of the trucks and construction crews changed my experience of the park. Now this is only a temporary sensory experience but it is necessary for the rest of the design to be implemented. The next sound clip was taken on the roof of the Brooklyn Grange. This is an agricultural as well as educational landscape. The farm being on a rooftop allows the user to escape the sounds of the city and traffic below. This shift in sense allows you to focus more on the food production and form a deeper connection with the landscape. II took this sound clip while the lady from the farm was going over how the farm works and what they do with the food. This experience is very telling of what a student group would experience on the rooftop. The third sound clip is my favorite, it was taken underneath a cluster of elevated rail lines over a chaotic arrangement of roads and crosswalks in Brooklyn. The intensity of the sounds being pumped into this area were very anxiety inducing. It did not help that we were somewhat lost while we were around this chaos. This was my favorite clip because it shows how much sound can change how you feel and act in a landscape. I recorded this in the middle of a beautifully designed section of a park that was a long side this petroleum fueled chaos. It would be near impossible for someone to relax in this area because of the sound of the traffic. This is probably why no one was sitting in the beautifully designed space. The final clips were taken in two areas that I felt were very peaceful. The first is at the Moore Street Market Farm and the second at the Guianas Canal pump station. Both of these spaces had a strong connection with water. The sound of the water in these recording is so relaxing it could be used as a lullaby. These spaces show how you can not only create a physical connection with the water in a site but also an audible one. Sounds can affect how we feel and can turn the most beautiful design into an underutilized space, as landscape architects we have to design for all the sensory experiences of a place and not just for how it looks.
We experience landscape through our senses. Sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound all combine to give the user a unique experience. The focus of today was on the sounds of different landscapes. From the beginning of the day, I was conscious of what I was hearing and how that affected how I felt in the landscape. At Gantry State Park on the riverside of Long Island City the sounds of the city were far enough removed from the site that it was a pleasant experience. As we got walking towards the current phase under construction the sounds of the trucks and construction crews changed my experience of the park. Now this is only a temporary sensory experience but it is necessary for the rest of the design to be implemented. The next sound clip was taken on the roof of the Brooklyn Grange. This is an agricultural as well as educational landscape. The farm being on a rooftop allows the user to escape the sounds of the city and traffic below. This shift in sense allows you to focus more on the food production and form a deeper connection with the landscape. II took this sound clip while the lady from the farm was going over how the farm works and what they do with the food. This experience is very telling of what a student group would experience on the rooftop. The third sound clip is my favorite, it was taken underneath a cluster of elevated rail lines over a chaotic arrangement of roads and crosswalks in Brooklyn. The intensity of the sounds being pumped into this area were very anxiety inducing. It did not help that we were somewhat lost while we were around this chaos. This was my favorite clip because it shows how much sound can change how you feel and act in a landscape. I recorded this in the middle of a beautifully designed section of a park that was a long side this petroleum fueled chaos. It would be near impossible for someone to relax in this area because of the sound of the traffic. This is probably why no one was sitting in the beautifully designed space. The final clips were taken in two areas that I felt were very peaceful. The first is at the Moore Street Market Farm and the second at the Guianas Canal pump station. Both of these spaces had a strong connection with water. The sound of the water in these recording is so relaxing it could be used as a lullaby. These spaces show how you can not only create a physical connection with the water in a site but also an audible one. Sounds can affect how we feel and can turn the most beautiful design into an underutilized space, as landscape architects we have to design for all the sensory experiences of a place and not just for how it looks.
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