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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

Longterm process

Mooifontein

The reuse of mine waste is nothing new; what has changed, however, is the scale and shape of such debris. Transportation is the major cost, and pollution is the main challenge while dealing with mine waste.

Learning from the mining approach the following characteristics will need to be implemented while redesigning the tailing:
-Chemical composition, including remediation process and its ability to become living spaces
-Stability composition
-Behavior under pressure and consolidation rates
-Erosion stability (wind and water)
-Settling, drying time, and densification behavior after deposition

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)