INSTITUTE OF GROUND TECTONICS

DS 18 IS A CLIMATE ORIENTATED STUDIO. IT AIMS TO STUDY PHYSICAL AND CLIMATIC ASPECTS AND EMBODIES THEM IN ITS ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. THE BRIEF IS SET TO ADDRES THE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHIN THE DESIGN PROPOSAL AND EMBODY ARCHITECTURE OF LOW CARBON EMMISIONS AND ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURAL ELEMENT IDEAS . THE SITE CHOSEN FOR THE DESIGN STUDY IS THE DENGE QUARRY MARSH, A QUARRY THAT HAS APPLIED FOR EXCVANATION EXTENTION AS AN ESTIMATED 1 MILLION TONES OF AGGREGATE IS NOT YET EXCAVATED. THROUGH THE STUDY OF THE UNIQUE MORPHOLOGY AND THE TECTONIC ALLOCATION OF THE SITE, THE PROPOSED DESING IS A SOIL LABORATORY WITH COMMUNAL USES. THE BUILDING AIMS TO BECOME A NARRATIVE OF THE GREAT GEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS THAT HAPPEN AROUND IT, AND CELEBRATE THE EXCAVATIONS TO AN EXTEND WHERE THE COMMUNITY CAN EXPERIENCE. IT IS SET TO BECOME AN ATRACTION TO THE DUNGENESS PEOPLE NOT ONLY BY ITS FORM BUT ALSO BY ITS ACTIVITIES WHERE PEOPLE CAN INTERACT WITH THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF AND LEARN ABOUT THE PROCESSES THAT TAKE PLACE HERE. THE MINERALS EXCAVATED WILL CONSTRUCT THE BUILDING, BLENDIND IT WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS TO CONSTITUTE A SCULPTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF A QUARRY