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Diploma 6

Radioactive Geologies

 

Radioactive geologies is a designed landscape that remains unfinishd for 100s of years. A reactive landscape exposes the passage of time across the geological lifespan of a nuclear storage site, developing an awareness of landscape interventions across geological time scale.

Australia's surface features express both ancient geological processes and technological landscapes of mining, the two existing simultaneously - both toxic yet mythic.

In order to engage with long term thinking we must reengage with new timeframes. Nuclear waste storage is a key example of where this new kind of thinking becomes crucial.

Through sculptural experiments that examine both short and long time frames, we experience scale, surface, spatial structure and geological transformation.

Spaces exist for viewers to perceive the elements of the existing landscape as they traverse pathways and stairs - becoming a universal 'limit experience' of human existence in time. This geological scale of architecture will propell the experience of the occupant into the sublime, through interventions of scale and time.

The sculptural experiments experience scale, surface, spatial structure and geological transformation.