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Over 1,000 historical landfill sites in the UK are at increasing risk of being breached by erosion. Global sea level rise has forced us into a critical position to rethink our relationship with flooding. This project, instead of inventing a defensive structure, attempts to propose a permeable border at a landfill site.
In response to the managed retreat plan at the East Tilbury Landfill, Curating Landfills envisions a restoration facility which breaches the sea wall and acts as a buffer to the landscape behind. Through repurposing the inert waste from the site, the proposal attempts to explore an alternative inhabitation to the interstitial zone between the wet and dry in a coastal landfill.
The project seeks to rethink the flood infrastructure through the design of a conceptual urban device.
Alternative inhabitation to the interstitial zone is reimagined with a set of infrastructures to generate energy, produce food and provide residence by making use of the tides.
The project continues to experiment with the idea of architecture as buffer on a building scale. It explores how building construction caters to the melody of landscape and vibrates rhythmically with sea waves.
The building also shows respect to the lunar cycle by wearing a clock envelope where intimacy is established between the construction and the sun.
The design attempts to repurpose the waste and redefine the wasteland commons through the lens of architecture.