Dip/MArch Unit 16 Yr 4:Ashley Ma, Ching Kan Chan, Daisuke Saito,Emily Yeung,Jinhyuk Ko,Jun Kundo,Spencer Tracey. Yr 5:Lok, Mark Martinez,Pernilla Ohrstedt,Ray Wang,Vicky Wong
Experimental Station [T.O.A.D] Temporary / Obsolete / Abandoned / Desolate An inside/outside architecture at the end of the Empire, the place to test and explore the emerging demands and needs of the 21st Century. We considered the car and the log as expressions of the same technology, hints of the ruins of the near future, a back catalogue to the past. We find ourselves at the beginning of a new geological epoch the Anthropocen period, where the impact of our activities and technologies upon global systems and the physical environment are significant to rival those of nature. We considered what it is to be experimental. Examining the origins and practice of the true amateur, whose restless musings were motivated by curiosity and an essential love to explore, reveal and understand the edges of meaning. Experimental was based on experience not on authority or mere conjecture. The settings for our “anthropogeomorphological� investigation were Dungerness, Kent, a near desert landscape of paradox, then continental USA from Miami to Los Angeles.
We would like to thank Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects for their continued assistance with Design Realization, with special thanks to Philip Turner.
Simon Herron and Susanne Isa
Top: Ashley Ma, Bottom: Pernilla Ohrstedt.