Rammed Earth Pavilion
Individually Led Project
International Design Competition
Mar 2023
Through engineering and brute construction, our structures teases the idea of permenance. However, through enough time and weather, the grandest monuments will eventually become nothing but pebbels and sand. Instead of being saddened by the fall of our creations, there is a opportunity to ask; what if its scars could be beautiful? what if death could give its life more meaning?
Situated in the interface between land and sea, ‘Scars that Write’ proposes a rammed earth instillation that dissolves through 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.