Earth Moves - A Territorial Resistance

Marcus Yau, MArch (Year: 5)

The project explores the possibility of transitional architecture and infrastructure {such as freshwater collection points, temporary spaces of shelter for both farmers and animals, wind pumps) that can be inhabited in order to facilitate the island community's seasonal migration pattern through their pastoral activities located on barrier islands of the Wadden Sea. The project reads the territory in 3 different ways - harnessing the natural forces of wind to pump freshwater from the ground, the geological placement of the water pumps, and the movement of the pastoral communities reading the surface condition of the landscape.