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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

Build-up

Vredefort Dome

Every year, around 100.000.000m3 of ‘cake’ is deposited. The landscape is build up from the outside inwards, so that the conveyor belt system can gradually be broken down. It takes around 100 years to construct the radial pattern. The relatively slow construction allows for contrasting landscape conditions to emerge and exposes processes of entropy: sharp outlines of the just-deposited are juxtaposed to greened, rounded off lines that have fully become part of the landscape, blurring the lines between the initial and the constructed. If mining activities proceed, secondary deposition can take place on top of the pattern once the initial layer is gradually eroded. In this sense, the project is never done.

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)