Spatial Affordances 

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The harbour is a place of constant change and movement with time and tide. There is a certain degree of temporality in the intertidal zone as nothing is static. This temporality also extends to the movement of waves, marine life, boats, fish, trucks, birds. As the tide comes and goes the fishermen engage with. When the tide is high the fishing activity takes place, when low the collected fish is packed in ice boxes and transported to other places. With the tide coming and going, crabs keep moving through the crevices of the stone harbour wall inhabiting it. Other forms of vegetation and marine life also inhabit these crevices in different manners. This ephemeral nature of activities on the harbour contributes to this undulation of the terrain. 

The drawing aims to map the harbour and its built form as a manifestation of its changing life forms that is ground, humans, marine life and its temporal rhythms. It sets up questions like how do marine animals make homes? How do tides construct the intertidal zone? Constructing a single landscape through lines talking about the movement on site, its rhythms, it focuses on the different entities playing an important role in the shaping of this shifting intertidal zone. It studies the continuously transforming landscape of everyday life with tides through multiple overlapping planes intersecting simultaneously.