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How Sequestrating Architecture Can Save the World From Global Climate Change

Part 2 Project 2020
Tommy Vince
 Umeå University | Sweden
Is finding your house sinking into the ground the next big thing within sustainable architecture? Well, if you want to believe the architect of this project, it might just be a common sight in the near future, as the field of architecture responds to the IPCC’s call of action towards industries developing methods of C[O2] sequestration. ‘How sequestrating architecture can save the world from global climate change’ is a bold project that responded to that call, proposing an architecture that both sequestrates its’ embodied C[O2] mass and does so within a targeted time-frame of a generation, gifting society and its protagonists with a possibility of producing a truthfully net positive [read C[O2] reductive] footprint. It succeeds in doing so by drawing knowledge from a local history of sinking architecture.

The main ambition for this project is producing a proposal that challenges the field of architecture through the certification industry of Life Cycle Analysis [LCA]. By introducing a sequestrating, net positive architectural topography, the bar of contemporary sustainable architecture will be dramatically set higher, pushing the development and design of every architectural intervention to come. Performed as projected, this pioneering project might just be the world’s most sustainable architecture, ever designed.

Tommy Vince
Tutor(s)
Amalia Katopodis
2020
: art piece : our timeline [12/12] an architects’ respons. sequestrating mound architecture by the accumulation of architectural net positive [reductive] C[O2] mass.
: diagram and photo : strategic application of C[O2] sequestrating materials and contextual heritage of sinking architecture.
: diagram and line drawing : the breaking the illusion of cradle-to-cradle and moving forward into a realistic approach that has a balancing effect on climate and doing so together with architectural details that resonate with the agenda of sinking archit
: line drawing : conceptual section of the proposal that over time, ages, accumulates by growth and waste from consumption, sinks and shrinks towards a sequestrated state, in union with its protagonist.
: photos: decomposing elements of architecture, embraced with the rejection of preservation and conservatism, welcoming the natural course of life under the influence of time and climate.
: line drawings : the proposed unit seen sinking over time. The protagonists perception of the architecture under constant alteration.
: line drawings : a contemporary interpretation of the nordic timber log dwelling, preserving the characteristics inherited by its context; horizontality + compression + change.
: line drawings : the units performing in collectiveness, leaning and sinking towards their inevitable fate of returning to the soil.
: art piece : our timeline [11/12] climate re-welcomed into the society of humans, an image that makes one question, what is really introducing over what?
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