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Project Global: Ground

This exploration of our current day metropolitan condition as a system of systems deals with the crust of the Earth as a primary carrying capacitor of human activities, from the extraction of resources deep within the ground, to agricultural operations that barely scratch the surface.

Part 1: Lexicon

Part 2: Atlas

Part 3: Architectural Projects

Part 3: Architectural Projects index

︎ By means of introduction...
︎ Parliament of Things
︎ Cemetery 36
︎ Institute of Mining Safety
︎ Post Thinkbelt

︎ Extrapolated Realities ︎ Co-Op Backyarding
︎ Informal Urban Farmers Market
︎ The Eviction Economy
︎ ASHES Base

︎ Symbiotic Infrastructure
︎ Stormwater Parks
︎ Agri-Course
︎ Dead & Alive

︎ Remediated Lands
︎ Anti-dust Landscape
︎ Soil & Green
︎ Rebound Landscape
︎ Nature’s Lung

︎ New Forms of Settlements
︎ Trickle-down Water Works
︎ Recycling Center
︎ A.R.C.CA.DI.A
︎ Growing Roots

︎ Extraction Reaction

︎ Tailing Urbanism
︎ Lavoisier’s Law
︎ A New Energy Landscape
︎ Cake Town

Single-Plot Size

These drawings explain the proposal for a single-plot size house with four backyard shacks of 12.5 square meters and a single septic system. Each shack is physically attached to one of the septic compartment walls both as sanitary solution and legal foundations. The homeowner privately uses one third of the plot and the other two-thirds are rented to and shared with backyarders. The new ground level within the sunken configuration provides the new residents with a more comfortable climate environment, basic sanitary conditions, and green grass with vegetation. All these new conditions help to redefine the boundary of property both to the street level and with regards to legislation.

Tutors

Sanne van den Breemer
Filip Geerts
Ilmar Hurkxkens

Director of Studies

Salomon Frausto

Contributors

Nigel Alarcon^(MX), Pooja Bhave^(IN), Mariano Cuofano^(IT), Fabiola Cruz^(PE), Alonso Díaz^(MX), Xiaoyu Ding^(CN), Ines Garcia‑Lezana^(ES), Sandra Garcia^(ES), Martino Greco^(IT), Sebastian Hitchcock^(ZA), Alejandra Huesca^(MX), Yesah Hwangbo^(KR), Takuma Johnson^(US), Yi-Ni Lin^(TW), Paola Tovar^(MX), Cristhy Mattos^(BR), Preradon Pimpakan^(TH), Adi Samet^(IL), Raymond Tang^(US), Kulaporn Temudom^(TH), Danai Tsigkanou^(GR), Jesse Verdoes^(NL), Rongting Xiao^(CN)