THIS | IS | ME

Platform X houses a viewing post that is also a statue; a guard house and a pillory; a laboratory, lighthouse and flag post. No one lives permanently on the island, yet those who visit are unable to forget it. It is both memorable and elusive. Trying to remember the island is like catching the wind.

| Site extractions | The work represents the micro findings of the landscape; they reveal valuable resources as well as autonomic matter that links to the existence of platform X

| Dispositional state of mind | The platform is connected to both, the land and sea. It exists within, above and below this mysterious terrain. That is all that is known about the platform. The unknown is what eludes the scientists. These are not questions but propositions.

| Fluid landscapes | The land is both stable and unstable; fixed and fluid; someplace and no place. It is both frontier and interior and it is the site for a number of architectural interventions and propositions that both draw on the history of Cape Verde but also speculate on its future.

Parts of the whole start shifting, some merge to become new identities, others drift off into isolation. The strands they tie them all together become tangled, the only thing reconnecting them is there GPS location. They are now seen as sites.

The first image is a mapping of the changing topographical horizons that takes place throughout the journey. The journey takes me out the city into an open landscape, in search of a location. The construction of multiple horizons gives rise to a new location. The location is both everywhere and nowhere. It’s a fictional site on which to arrive on. The second representation is of a fabricated landscape that incorporates the captured sound, light, wind and soil of actuality and is reinterpreted in the form of a foreign location. The sound influences the form, Light influences the topography, wind influences the texture and the soil, the color.

 The project speculates the formation of a new terrain. The representation and understanding of the new terrains is the focus of this project. By means of architectural mapping, we can start to read the landscape as new form of terrain. Situating ourselves on this new landscape is the begging process, or is just then end?

 As an exploration in to the creation of form through narration, the four forms represent different characters that are in a state of ‘statelessness’, a person who has no affiliation to a land by neither blood nor soil. They are unstable, yet they conform and adapt to new surroundings that are governed by their new territory. The representation see’s seeking asylum as a search for stable ground inside a new protected area, but the project also refers to asylum as the secured institute where people who are unstable are kept to protect there safety.