Graduate Research - Fall 2024 Semester - Arch 510
Working Project Narrative:
Year: 2050- 2090 (20 - 60 Years in the future)
Minimal forests and high number of endangered species due to illegal mining and deforestation throughout the Amazon and Congo. At this time, the world is beginning to see a collapse in primary native forests and a major decrease in vital species that helped them to flourish.
Architecture as a servant works to form a new perspective of native ecologies in working to restablish once lost ecosystems through native plant and animal species restoration. Placed upon the cratered ground in landscapes marked with a histroy of mining and explotation of resources, architecture as a servant works to create a new relationship in establishing “ecological zoos”. These sites let individuals reflect, learn, and conserve the once native untouched ecosystems that used to exist through careful nourishment and monitoring of ecologies. The architectural intervention itself working as a reflection of the ways in which life can flourish when provided with the proper means and the site as the once fractured reminder of harmful past practices that stripped the world of its nature. Not only would they negate harmful deforestation happening in crucial landscapes but they would also work to restore cultural landscape practices of third world communities while providing job opportunities for those who once worked in the mines as a means of living. This would ensure a way of life that prevents child labor, trespassing, and illegal activities as a means of survival.
Below are a variety of artifacts working to highlight various points of research throughout each week of the semester. These artifacts work to showcase an investigation of intent that tie into the working concept statement and greater pool of research in preparation for the final grad project scheduled to be completed in May 2025.
Artifact 1 - These terrarium structures are made purely with the intent of an architecture that is made to supplement the life of the plant inside.
Artifact 3 - The above intervention works to investigate an architecture that would supplement the life of a once existing ecosystem. The architecture itself working to nourish the seedlings of native plant species and helping restore the lost ecologies of the past.
Artifact 3
Artifact 3
Artifact 2 - This artifact is a series of process models for the various ways in which Architecture as a Servant could become a form.
Artifact 4 - This artifact works to highlight the implementation of the phases in which Architecture as a Servant would be employed on a site and the environmental changes that would follow.
Artifact 4