#embeddedcollective

Landscape Typologies

Grafting of two plans (archive and library)

The ecology of the landscape archive is defined through time and memory embedded within. Although the identity of the landscape continuously changes, the history of the landscape remains present. It gains identity through shifts over time, embedding the social, political and cultural needs. Similarly, an archive collects its identity through the same means, but acts instead through physical storage; allowing these identities to solidify their place in time. An archive allows the access of past identities, while the landscape holds these identities in the moment and only allows access through memory. Our intention is to collapse the history and memory embedded within the landscape, creating a solidified landscape archive.

The human needs, embedded within a landscape, transforms it into an archive. The archive has the ability to store layers of identities with the option of removal. By looking at the various identities as a catalogue, the characteristics reveal themselves, producing means to a vessel: A vessel generating space defined by the archive. By using this means of creation, it allows an evolution of architecture in sync with its environment.