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

Sample

Dewatering a sample of Dolomite


Sample - 26°24’28.6” S 27°22’20.0” was extracted from Carletonville (Gauteng). Its strata show the process of human alteration of the landscape. More specifically, the glass box contains the layers of compacted mineral compounds - illustrating how this area of study has undergone a process of dewatering of the Dolomite’s stone– A sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, largely diffuse in the south Gauteng – and the results of the mechanism of ‘dewatering’ used to dry the extraction pit before starting mining operations.



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)