Shelter Points

Location: Pape Nature Park, Latvia The Shelter Point, is a modular information point intended to show visitors the different wildlife’s shelters within their natural habitat in an abstract way. The concept for the design came from taking the modular requirement of the brief, and associating it with origami, more specifically a paper fortune teller, where one can fold and unfold coloured or numbered pieces to reveal things. In a similar way, the triangular pieces of the information points are made out of different coloured recycled acrylic which when looked through, reveal how the site looks through different times of day or seasons. As the park includes a variety of different locations including bogs, forests, meadows etc., the form of the information point is easily adjusted to represent it’s temporary site.

Open tree shelter

This information point form represents the shelter for the wild horses, bison and aurox, which are two trees, as these animals don’t have a specific habitat, stay in herds, and most commonly take shelter underneath trees if they have to. The edges of the triangular parts are rounded to avoid hurting the animals.

Bird nest shelter

Placed in the wood area is the bird nest information point. This human scale nest form allows for visitors to experience it, as well as can help all wildlife to use it as a shelter point.

This information point is located in the entrance area, representing a human shelter (house). Like all points, it has a leaflet/brochure storage box, and the materiality allows for posters to be easily put up as well.

This information point form represents the water animals shelter, which is the bogs or sea shore. The timber base not only makes the structure practical for floating on water if needed, but also creates a space for the animals to actually take shelter.

Open tree shelters elevations

Human shelter elevations

Paper fortune teller concept

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