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The project’s output is that of an archive; a physical curation of artefacts, and a landscape proposal that ‘records’ contemporary thought into form. On both counts, the resulting experience draws attention to past, present, and future landscape legacies.
In reading either the unit or indeed the topographic forms, tree planting and grassland spread across the landscape, understanding is contingent on individual reader outlooks.
To some, the project will be viewed as a static recording of past endeavours, filling a self-built unit with sketches and macquettes.
For others, it is a source of interconnected environmental and quasi-political reflection that promotes critique on landscape processes. Either consumption, however, is inescapably grounded in present-day paradigms, which, like the landscape itself, shift in their relation to the past and future on a permanently fluctuating basis.
Project artefacts, being sketches, material tests, experimentation models and records of computational process are collated and curated within an archive for attention.
The unit is positioned on Tilbury’s material landing pier. Accessible, by design, only at high tide, a contemporary reading process that draws greater attention to the Thames.
Each archival layer is thematic, from ‘investigation’ and ‘experimentation’ to the shown ‘outcomes’ content. Each artefact is labelled and linked, forming the project narrative.
Stimulated by knowledges from the archive, the ‘future present’ reading of the archive, in plan, charts a landscape of topography, grassland and attention-grabbing yellow hues.
As ‘a future future’ drone view, the landscape’s baked in geological messaging of apology emerges from the topography, eroded by time and shifting high tide levels.