Constructing Collapse
Individually Led Project
International Design Competition
Mar 2023
Through engineering and brute construction, our structures test the idea of permenance. However, through enough time and weather, even our grandest monuments will dissolve to pebbels and sand. In the fall of creations, there arises the opportunity to ask; what if its scars could be beautiful? what if death could give its life more meaning?
Situated at the border between land and sea, ‘Constructing Collapse’ proposes a rammed earth instillation that celebrates the effects of coastal weathering. Instead of repelling nature as the destructive enemy, it is given the role as the second artist.
Construction Layers of Rammed Earth Compound (Front View)
Erosion process through time (Side & top view)
Presentational pre-design illustration
Early stages and parti development sketching
Erosion observations, where the idea was seeded
San Josef Bay (Sea Stacks), Canada.
San Josef Bay (Sea Stacks), Canada.