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Figs. 9.6 – 9.7 James Robinson Y2, ‘Hydrodynamic Landscape and Water Archive’. The building captures the lost lakes of Mexico City. The proposal includes private laboratories, a water archive, a public park, and nutrient-emitting cranes hovering above open lakes. Different parts of the building are allowed to be flooded as the landscape fluctuates with the seasons. The architecture is a cross between a building and a scenographic landscape. Fig. 9.8 Thomas Leggatt Y2, ‘Equilibrium Weather Device’. The device looks to engage an audience to question the balance between man-made environmental issues and the human intervention required to reduce their impact. It requires constant human interaction to create equilibrium, by way of interventions that allude to man’s misuse of water and nature’s way of replenishing such natural resources. The design
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questions how man balances out these forces. Fig. 9.9 Thomas Leggatt Y2, ‘The Sound Archive’. Sited in Centro Historico, The Sound Archive uses an architectural language to act as instruments for rainwater during the wet season. The sounds created are recorded as an archive for future reference. During the dry season, the archive sounds are replayed to create a folly-esque representation of water flowing through the design. The experience of the architecture juxtaposes live and mediated soundscapes.