Saltcult
Salt Cult is a cynical examination of contemporary capitalism and consumption. Modern business has become all encompassing, festering systematic inequality, corruption, and exploitation through lobbying and social propaganda. The wealth gap is growing, slowly destroying the middle class, and creating a new western oligarchy of the ultra-rich. These business moguls have become policy makers, controlling government to advance their status and wealth at the expense of the whole. The people have become addicted to consumption and prone to radicalization. Our system is one full of hypocrisy and absurdity.
Salt Cult looks into a future where late-stage capitalism has reached a morbid depth. The wealth gap has left only the ultra-rich and the ultra-poor. With the collapse of a buying class, global trade has stopped, commodities that were once abundant have become precious. Companies have formed into absolute monopolies, jealously hoarding their wealth and assets. Society settles into outposts revolving around industries extracting essential resources. The poor go on pilgrimages between sites to secure the necessities for survival. One resource, however, drives a craving beyond expectation: salt.
Sustainable Urban Living
Bennet Harvey + Tim Schmidt bildhaus.ca
The Commemorative Monument of the Non-Visible
The Commemorative Monument of the Non-Visible transforms the abandoned heritage site of the Carbide Mills located on the waterfront in downtown Ottawa into a space of use by the “non-visible” citizens of Canada including marginalized minorities and vulnerable groups. This project takes advantage of the National Capital Commission’s mission to create commemorative monuments for the people by celebrating the portion of the population who never get celebrated in Ottawa. The Commemorative Monument of the Non-Visible’s design avoids power-geometry and grows organically from the central “heart of the home.” The building is divided into three zones:
the Heart, Creative Making, and Quiet Rest. Members of the community build and transform the ever-evolving monument by changing and adding to a scaffolding structure and clipping to it materials from their own communities. This community-run design produces a site for sharing stories, teaching, learning, making, and nurturing self-worth. Diversity is here not a matter of obligation or quotas, but rather, the driver of an architectural idea -- one that promotes a decolonized society.
Project url: hilaryromaniuk.wixsite.com/hilary-romaniuk/ commemorative-monument
Hilary Romaniuk + Jamie Wong
Index
Abdelrahman, Hager
Interconnected*
Water Webs
Al-Idrissi, Hadiya
The Forest Factory
Allard, David Bastien
The Cloud Factory
Almacin, Alexis
Lo-Fi Music as Architecture
Alstyne, Sarah Van Foundation Of Play
Saltscapes
Amarioarei, Corina
Trash Towers*
Tree Factory*
Antunes, Elisa
Obligatory Coexistence
Bacalu, Catalin
Hydrobus Central Station
Baric, Hayley
Transient Factory
Beliak, Matthew
Urban Forestry Research Facility
Booth, Andrea
Convergence
Borujerdi, Fatemeh
Individualism & Context
Borwick, Sasha
Between the Stones
Bradely, Angelica
A Clifftop Sanctuary
Brady, Melissa
Crossroads
Holistic Community Design
The Weaved Sanctuary
Broadhurst, Sean
Details for Multiworld Assemblies
Tending to Weeds
Burghed, Mira
The Archive of Lost Stories and Dormant
Memories
Chan, Annette
Phase Four
The Weaved Sanctuary
Cheung, Janis
Vagabond
Chung, Ji Young
Déjà Vu
Chung, Jonathan
Belonging To a Bar
Cichon, Sarah
Home and Habitat
Clouatre, Derek
Gargantuan
Colenutt , Karyn
A Ladder to The Dream House
Combaluzier, Megan
Our Social Future
Dave, Nishant
Constructed Topographies
Green Pocket Community*
Denis, Mathieu
Aw(AIR)ness
Risers Ad Infinitum Towards Shelter
Desjardins, Noah
Constructed Topographies
Green Pocket Community*
Dickson, Daniel
Literapolis*
Dillabaugh, Darion
City Passage and Studios
The Nakkershack
Dinh, Huy
Level-Up Lodge
RCC Gym
Eckert, Joshua
Tower for the Trees*
Effah, Daniel F.
Between This Space and Me
Egan, Charlotte
Saltscapes
Elekes, Megan
Crossroads Viewport
Fahmy, Sarah Crossroads
Our Social Future
Submerged Immersion
Threshold Landscapes
Fink, Melissa
Hoa Hakananai’a Intersections
Follis, Ty
Ascension
Friedman, Karin Delineation
Gangnon, Charbel Fabien
Phoenix House
Gialouris-Tsivikas, Georgios
Lock(e) Lounge
Godfrey, Max
Herongate Community Centre
Graaf, Kate De
Of Hosting and Having
Graziani, Tobia
L’intermédiaire
Hacker, Bianca
Ascension
Haghighi, Vedad
The Nine Valleys
Haqani, Sideqa
Existence as Resistance Traverse*
Harvey, Bennet
Centretown Loop*
Saltcult
Hermer, Will
A Place for Wind
Huang, Joey
Memory of The Feet
Huang, Ju
The Oppression and Criticism of the Olfactory Cells
Jacques, Hugo
The Life and Death of an Untold Speech*
Jamili, Mouhamad
Muskoka West Bay
Jermyn, Connor Sub-Urban
Jiang, Nan
The Bakery House
The Ceiling as Woven Lines
Juntilla, Klariza
Champagne Baths Renewal
Kettler, Evan
Table Étendu
Kigel, Yana
A Golden Green Belt
The Study of Paths and Their Users
Kreager, Amelia
Bank Gallery
The Robin Gymnasium
Lamug, Shela Delineation
Lemire-Waite, Natasha Bloom
Machine For Living Phase Four
Threshold Landscapes
Levesque, Chloe
Phase Four
The Weaved Sanctuary Li, Justin
Lodgings For a Weary Traveller Traverse*
Li, Ruby
Overbrook Community Center
Liebe, Lauren
The Frustration Station Luu, Jason
Gathering
Macdonald, Ailsa Visualization
Maiolo, Cameron
Our Current Condition
Maksymshyn, Megan
Constructed Topographies
Mandac, Michael
Accordion Towers and Squeaking
Inflatables
Manstrangelo, Dana
Holistic Community Design
Marwah, Ahaan
L’intermédiaire
Melhado, Otmar
Our Social Future
Merchant, Arkoun
HCR Industries
Project Revamp
Merrick, Claire
The Third Seascape* Monfette, Emma Tokyo Series
Murdoch, Natalie Visualization
Nicell, Conor
The Shipwright’s Symphonic Nguyen, Thompson Cong Altars, Offerings and Inheritances
Oleksiak, Robert
Our Social Future Olivares, Daniela
Euphony*
Opdebeeck, Stephanie
The Bridge
The Offset Collective To Reflect Is to Frame
Penney, Cam [In]visible Ecologies
Bloom
Phase Four
Seascapes of Memory
Threshold Landscapes
Perini, Milena
Intertwined and Interconnected
Perrella , Damiano
Saltscapes
Pottinger-Gentles, Sianna Delineation
Qasem, Dalia
Densification, Exposure, and Protection
Rafael-White, Gerry
A Place for Wind
Rath, Emma
Assembling Narcissus’s Pond
Robitaille, Jonathan Foundation Of Play
Vagabond
Romaniuk, Hilary
The Commemorative Monument of the Non-Visible
Schickedanz, Grace
Chain Reaction Distraction
Schmidt, Tim
Centretown Loop*
Saltcult
Sejdinovic, Lejla
Conceal & Reveal
Fragmented Memory
Sheikh, Muneebah
Eccles Soup n’ Stay Shen, Jiaxuan
Gaming World
Siage, Reem
Interconnected*
Singh, Shreetika
Holistic Community Design
Stapper, Amos
The Building Block Library
Stojanoski, Goce
Amnestic Syndrome of a Lost Geographical
Location
Mythopoetic Narratives of The Invisible Minorities
Strochinski, Travis
Treading Water
Tamborro, Connor
Holistic Community Design
Taylor, Lauren
A Space For Thinking
The Human Leg and Design
Thomson, Stuart Bank Street LTC Housing
Tromp, Eva
Cliff Hanger
Villarasa, Jessica
Champagne Baths Aquatic Complex
Nakker tok Ski Lodge
Wallace , Kayla Visualization
Wang, Helen
Building on Community Lines Of Si[gh]te
Weinberger, Jill
The Kinetic Reef
Wilson, Jacob
Between the Stones
Wong, Jamie
The Commemorative Monument of the Non-Visible
Woolfrey, Martha River Ij Hydrology Centre
The STEAMship
Youssef, Anthony
Meaning (A)Drift
Zhan, Yiping
Lines of Sight