Rhizomatic Decontamination Part 1 Project 2025 Jacob Spinks Norwich University of the Arts Norwich | UK Set within the contaminated terrain of Orfordness – a former military testing site marked by decades of bombing and environmental degradation – this project reimagines the landscape as an evolving ecological system. Rather than concealing its violent past or pursuing aggressive remediation, the proposal embraces contamination, working with conditions of decay through a choreography of tree- based systems. Drawing from Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble, it challenges traditional notions of reclamation by cultivating land repair and subtle coexistence with toxic legacies.The scheme follows the historic land bombing trajectory, transforming this destructive axis into a new spatial framework. Bomb craters become reinterpreted as sites of regeneration, planted with metallophyte trees that extract toxins from the soil. Around them, modular pods – constructed from reclaimed scrap and bio-materials – act as cybernetic agents of decontamination.Organised through a grid that enables phased expansion, this hybrid technical- natural arboreal architecture negotiates between toxic terrain and emergent zones of inhabitation.Mediating between historical scars and itsecological potential, the project proposes a speculative infrastructure for post-human inhabitation. It repositions architecture as a long-term agent of reparation, asking how design might operate through contamination – where restoration is not a return to purity, but an engagement with complex entanglements. Tutor(s)