Waterscapes introduce powerful horizontal views that allow the eye to extend far along the horizon. Making time to let your mind wander can be a restorative and pleasurable experience which is a unique and inseparable condition of landscape. Balmori Associates researched devices that are capable of manipulating the way one apprehends space in order to make the viewer more conscious of the act of seeing. The viewing device chosen for this demonstration was a truncated cone with openings on either end.
These vision cones were then implemented within a series of large planes with circular openings, scaled to allow humans to pass through the space. The voids created by the circular openings gradually rose from the ground, shifting your view and relationship to the landscape as you transcended the space. By progressing through the frames towards the water the field of view incrementally opened up, allowing the horizon to gradually reveal itself.