// CIVILIZED WILDNESS
A kindergarten for ecological disaster. One which allows students to realize that civilization is not something that exists outside of wildness and that nature and wildness are both cultural constructs. This kindergarten is without corridors and acts as a Palladian villa in terms of circulation. All accidental encounters that occur moving through the spaces cause friction and threaten the way we live as a society. Rather than eradicating the social experience, this kindergarten encourages no peace, no security, and no segregation. Perforations in the façade allow not only for an immediate engagement with nature but also for other species to inhabit the kindergarten. This kindergarten is set back into the post-industrial worlds romanticized definition of nature but looks out on the inherent beauty but ugly reality of a manufactured landscape. ‘Civilized Wildness’, an off-grid project, allows the future generation to realize that they are a part of nature too.
