[Chelsea Wu - Intertwine - COVER IMG] Exterior view from UN General Assembly overlooking medicine garden and Lenape Learning Centre.

Intertwine

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design / Cultural Architecture
University/SchoolUniversity of Waterloo
Lead ArchitectChelsea Wu
Design TeamWang Wang Wang, Muhammad Raziq Bin Ramlan

On the ancestral lands of the Lenape nation, the gridded and architecture of New York City calls for the revitalization of connection. Intertwine seeks to explore the values of the Land Back movement to designing for Lenape sovereignty. This includes the revitalization of traditional ecological practices and an educative mobilization of relationality to strengthen land and community-based connections. With a focus on care as protest, the interwoven form and multisensorial didactic landscaping decentralizes new learning and mutual aid opportunities on the site toward honest reconciliation.