FrontLines
Toronto, Ontario
Competition
Design Team
Max Worrell, Jejon Yeung, Beatriz de Uña Bóveda
A snow fence is resilient; a simple barrier that disrupts the speed of windblown snow to accumulate in desired places. FrontLines builds on this premise by proposing a layered, porous barrier that highlights resiliency and the delicate balance between human actions and the forces of nature. Sited along Lake Ontario, FrontLines is resourceful and low-tech; made of a series of lines from off-the-shelf snow fences.
At 60 meters long, FrontLines acts as a threshold that mediates the shoreline and creates a dynamic and varied terrain of snow, sand and water that is unique to its time and place. Visitors are invited to explore by weaving and navigating the ambiguous boundaries but also to pause and contemplate this physical and metaphorical manifestation of resilience.
