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

The Eviction Economy

           
 

11 Diagonal Street

The Red Ants HQ


By projecting the explosive growth of South Africa’s private securities industries over 11 Diagonal street, the iconic modernist building by German architect Helmut Jahn - the very act of projection of an existing circumstance lays the groundwork for the emergence of new understanding of the city, a method this construction of an alternate reality and its subsequent juxtaposition with reality is what lies in the foundation of the “Paranoid Critical Method” advocated by Koolhaas. This experimental method, introduced by Salvador Dali, juxtaposes a surreal concept with the existing reality to re-contextualize it. It creates a collage between the surreal and the real allowing one to act as a ground for the other. In its essence, it is a method for modification of the ground to recontextualize the figure. The paranoid-critical method was not merely an abstract concept; it allowed Koolhaas to conceptualize the idea of ground differently. Instead of being a rigid datum, it allowed perceiving the ground as a modifiable entity.

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)