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A GERARD DAMIANI STUDIO K I T TA N G 2024 PITTSBURGH VEGAS FORTWORTH MARFA NEW YORK
We ventured into the Desser ts. Cities. Monuments. Searching for Presence...
Although versions been lands,
most of
set and
in
earlier
pastoral
had
never-never although
The
Te m p e s t c o n t a i n s o n l y o n e allusion to the actual New World, its setting is never wholly fanciful.
The Machine in the Garden
Leo MARX
Forty Miles north of the Monument of Shiprock there is an unnamed desert
It is unlike the Great Deser t across the Atlantic Ocean where mists of sand flow off of great dunes under the Golden Rays
or the one miles to the South where traces of life litters the landscape with Sparks of Oases
This desert is pale
paved with a thin layer of rocky sand over an infinite bed of volcanic shards
silent among the howling of wind
Gardens, earliest forms of refuge. Emerged five thousand miles and five
thousand
years
from
this
a n c i e n t ba s i n . C y r u s of t h e o l d Pe r s i a envisioned an artificial paradise for his newly established empire.
“A w a l l e d - i n c o m p o u n d ” , c o n c e i v e d and brought to existence for the yearning and hope of mankind – a realm of ideal dreams among terra firma;
Such
is
the
concept of Garden.
origin
of
the
As man made paradises in enclosed plots,
gardens
occupiers
from
sheltered the
their
remainder
of
the world, manifesting their beliefs into –
r e a l i t y.
Chahar
persians
The
Bagh created
–
f o u r- f o l d
layout
of
ancient
the
geometric
from the chaotic nature.
order
A mysterious fountain supplying greeneries and four rivers of water remains
the
sole
inescapable
feature of the early Islamic gardens as brave settlers challenged the drought
deserts
Mediterranean.
of
the
eastern
“out of the ground grows every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of k n o w l e d g e o f g o o d a n d e v i l .” - Genesis 2:9 Eden – probably the most renowned garden of histor y – is conceived as a sacred place that beholds the source of life, together with the vir tue that s u s t a i n s h u m a n i t y.
An untouchable realm of an ideal world.
Roman
nobles
constructed
peace gardens decorated by fountains, status and vegetations – all laid out in compositional manner – provided tranquil refuge in the middle of the bustling urban lives.
Byzantines
treated
gardens
as
experimental grounds for emerging technologies. Most often populated with
libraries
and
scholars,
pioneering sciences such as grafting and planned watering systems are experimented and documented in these so-called paradise gardens.
N a t u r a l l y,
technology
has
always
held a firm presence in generating the ideal compound: The flourishing landscaping of the Hanging Garden for the Babylonians, the ever flowing water fountain of the Alhambra, the celebration of lost knowledge of the Palazzo di Villa for the Renaissance.
The
gardens
but
also
not
bring
only
to
symbolize
existence
the
future of mankind, the evolution of civilizations, and the beliefs of the generation. Linger in the midst of
the
imaginative
and
r e a l i t y,
technology – strangely – embodies the same hope that a garden carries. Such remains ever so true today in the age of machines.
Carbon, footprints of human progress as
a
civilization.
Its
presence
marks
how far we, as a species, have come since the day we walk among animals. Discover y of Fire, Conscious Explosion, Neolithic,
Bronze,
Revolution.
Every
of
ours
documents
Iron,
Industrial
progressive itself
stage
among
the
atmosphere and land with a unique mark of carbon trace. At this point, this ver y trace – the memor y of our evolutionar y path – has posed concern and threats to the continuation of the species.
And the DAC proposal, a technology w h i c h e r a s e s t h e r e m e m b r a n c e o f, i n a w a y, o u r d e e d s a n d p a s t , c a r r i e s t h e yearning hope of our species. As the first large-scale engineering applied on the atmosphere – an attempt to create paradise on a scorched earth, a last resort to refuge the future humanity – the DAC takes form as Gardens of the New Age.
The
DAC
units,
housing
fans
and
carbon
filters,
are
very
the
foundation of the plant. Rising 60 ft above sea level and spanning 1350 ft within each module, they become the
monolithic
walls
that
frame
the gardens. Carbon molecules are filtered directly through the open air and bound into a liquid solution.
The carbon rich fluid is piped into the processing tanks located on the nodes further
of
the
DAC
compressed
Corridors into
and
nominal
batches that are ready to be injected one
kilometer
deep
underground,
locked safely in between layers of porous rocks.
Each
capable
of
removing
close
to 200 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere;
all
864
fan
units
combine a total effor t of almost 173000
tonnes
of
annual
aerial
carbon capture. And such capacity brings the energy consumption of the whole plant up to 10368000000 kWh (one thousand and thirty seven million kWh, 1030 GWh).
Such energy can be sufficiently provided by this solar tower matrix. Eight thousand reflective mirrors calibrate their tilt and orientation constantly based on the positioning of the sun, redirecting the solar ray across 300 hectares (3 million square meters) of land surface to concentrate on the molten salt g e n e r a t o r h i g h u p o n t h e t i p o f t h e t o w e r. Such installation provides up to 1500 GWh of
clean
electricity
per
y e a r,
sufficiently
covering the entire energy consumption of the DAC Plant while expor ting close to unlimited clean energy outwards into the surrounding towns and cities.
All
these
parts,
here
compared
of
College
the
drawn
in
scale
to
the
building
of
Fine
Arts,
are
the components that make up the Carbon Capturing plant.
This DAC complex – monumental in scale – lays out in a perfect grid of nine squares. Such is determined by the logic of the carbon capturing processes. The voidal space left in the center among
those
monumental
DAC
Corridors becomes the gardens of this age.
Gu i d i n g
th e
visitin g
c irc ulatio n ,
th e
g ard en s n o t o n ly h o use th e dr illin g to we r th at seals th e c ar bo n deep in to t h e gro un d, th ey also eac h embo dies a re m embr an c e th at tells th e tale of m an kin d. Fro m
th e
en tr an c e
th resh o ld
to
re s i d en tial quar ter s, to th e n in e-square g ri d in th e c en ter an d to th e matr ix of t h e so lar to wer, th e pro jec t is th e co m p o sitio n of 12 garden s.
Given identities – they each carry a n a m e ; e a c h b e a r a s t o r y. These gardens – they are the shelters that sanctuarize refugees from the anarchy of enterprises; they are the plazas that drown pilgrims among the chanting of the DAC turbine blades; they are the cemeteries that is engraved with the journey of a species; they are the temple that ascend the hope of a civilization.
Akin to this ancient land, these gardens erase the physical traces left behind by their creators, and harbor only the presence of their spirits.
G A R D E N
G A T E W A Y
O F
O F
I N I T I AT I O N
G A R D E N
C O M P L E X
G A R D E N
DAC
COMPLEX
&
O F
CARBON
DEPOSIT
M A N
PL ATFORM
G A R D E N
DAC
COMPLEX
&
O F
CARBON
T R E E S
DEPOSIT
PL ATFORM
G A R D E N
DA C
CO M P L E X
O F
&
S A M P L E
S K Y
A R C H I V E
GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE
D A C
C O M P L E X
&
M E M O R I A L
GARDE N
O F
DA C
&
CO M P L E X
CO LU MN S
E X H I B I T I O N
H A L L
GARDE N
DAC
COMPLEX
O F
&
M O NUM E N TS
CARBON
DEPOSIT
PL ATFORM
G A R D E N
RESEARCH
O F
RESIDENTIAL
S H E L T E R
&
VISITOR
RETREAT
G A R D E N
E N E R G Y
O F
M A T R I X
S U N
... to overcome by finding a way out ... the Way Out ... Out of the desert and into the kingdom of the Radiant City. M a r k TAY LO R
Standing eternal or dissipating among the sand, their presence announces -
36 WORKS of 12 GARDENS
Overview
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
03
18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of FOLIAGE
GARDEN of MAN
GARDEN of MAN
18” * 18” * 24”
02
PLAN
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
03
18” * 18” * 24”
01
GARDEN of FOLIAGE
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
GARDEN of GUESTURE
GARDEN of GUESTURE
GARDEN of GUESTURE
18” * 18” * 24”
02
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of MAN
AREAL VIEW
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
03
18” * 18” * 24”
01
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
02
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of FOLIAGE
01
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
18
18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of MONUMENTS
GARDEN of REMEMBRANCE
GARDEN of REMEMBRANCE
18” * 18” * 24”
17
PLAN
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
15
18” * 18” * 24”
16
GARDEN of MONUMENTS
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
GARDEN of SKY
GARDEN of SKY
GARDEN of SKY
18” * 18” * 24”
14
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of REMEMBRANCE
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
12
18” * 18” * 24”
13
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
11
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of MONUMENTS
10
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
27
18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24” 18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of SUN
GARDEN of SHELTER
GARDEN of SHELTER
18” * 18” * 24”
26
PLAN
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
24
18” * 18” * 24”
25
GARDEN of SUN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
GARDEN of COLUMNS
GARDEN of COLUMNS
GARDEN of COLUMNS
18” * 18” * 24”
23
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of SHELTER
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
PLAN
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
21
18” * 18” * 24”
22
EXPERIENCIAL VIEW
20
18” * 18” * 24”
GARDEN of SUN
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