EXTRACTION - Global affects and local negotiations
BA Unit 2+3E [TP3]
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I started working with a rock salt mine in Sicily Petralia Soprana. There are three different ways of extracting salt. Solar salt; which is seawater contained in pools where the sun vaporizes the water and salt crystals is extracted. Vacuum salt; seawater is kept in silos and put under compression the water will crystalize. Rock salt is formed 6 billons years ago and is a part of the landscape in Sicily. When extracting rock salt everything is happing underground. From extracting to packaging the first time the salt sees the daylight is when it is distributed to the costumers. Furthermore, in this method of extracting, the excavators have a system and relation. Each excavator has their task. Drilling, carving, basting, drilling, mocking, reinforcing, scaling, repeating this is the circulation of the excavators. Controlling the excavators became my interest. I analyzed the movements of the drivers maneuvering the excavators. The movements were static robotic, I made a device that mimic the human movements to do the same to show the simplicity of the movements out of context.
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Salt Shed Spring Street is a shed housing rock salt used for the roads during winter period. The structure is formed with angels of 320 which simulates the same structure of a salt crystals. This will be a reminder for the citizens of purpose of the building. The Shed collects water on the roof that are contained in silos, the water is used for cleaning the building and the excavators are used of storing the salt. The city of Faxe is a city of contrasts in the landscape. The underground contains limestone and water. There are various underground pools. Some are protected, others are drained or polluted. To maintain the water balance, I developed a system that ensures this balance. Faxe Kalkbrud pumps up 700.000m3 of water into Faxe Ă… every year. Instead of pumping all the water away I came up with the idea of using the water, by pumping it up from the quarry and filter it. Analyzing the site and its contents I found out that the main characters where the farmers, the city, the quarry,