Geological Archive Part 2 Project 2007 Ed Butler Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK Rooted in the Menai Valley, the project reacts to ancient frameworks and derelict industries, connecting with the landscape - a place for geological knowledge and craft, a store and research facility, to reinvigorate past activity.A disused railway cutting crosses the site, much of the building held within it, clinging to its walls. An ancient axis intersects this cutting – a Neolithic ‘cursus’ line, creating a place of new activity and intensity.Geological core samples inform the functions. Hung vertically on hand-operated overhead rail systems, they circulate, entering public and private spaces, appearing as sculptures, artifacts, and technical resources. Ed Butler The thinking and drawing evidenced in a dialogue with this project inhabits core spaces in our minds – deep history, the industrial ‘mutation’ that has brought us to a brink, and proposed ‘footprints’ that architecture is now called on to lay down.The evolved project re-interprets the primal ‘density’ of the circle (the Cyclotron), re-inhabits an industrial ‘wound’ (as ‘vie quotidienne’), while in the valley below, a strategy for the port of Dinorwic to become a positive, rather than a sad, part of the 'congested century'.This project, by its depth, announces an arrival on the architectural scene.