LEFTOVERS. Harvard GSD M.Arch I Thesis, w. Sergio Lopez-Pineiro; Los Angeles, CA
Can buildings and landscapes stripped of their novelty still be valuable? LEFTOVERS takes rubbish as its medium -- that which emerges not from newness, but rather from longstanding duration.
Just as the log cabin comes from the trees of the forest, the leftover dwelling is conceived of using the rubbish of the cataclysm -- fractured freeway asphalt, fallen concrete artifacts, defunct drainage troughs... The tectonic measures necessary to juxtapose the residual castoffs of the earthquake with quotidian design methods may render visible resilient and unforeseen ways of living.
Can buildings and landscapes stripped of their novelty still be valuable? LEFTOVERS takes rubbish as its medium -- that which emerges not from newness, but rather from longstanding duration.
Just as the log cabin comes from the trees of the forest, the leftover dwelling is conceived of using the rubbish of the cataclysm -- fractured freeway asphalt, fallen concrete artifacts, defunct drainage troughs... The tectonic measures necessary to juxtapose the residual castoffs of the earthquake with quotidian design methods may render visible resilient and unforeseen ways of living.
