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.
EARTH MOVES How a moving landscape threatens national borders

Winter Scenario - Higher Tides Constrain Grazing Movements within the Island and Settlement Points

Summer Scenario - Lower Tides Enable Trans-islandic Grazing

Measurement and Prediction of Time and Erosion - Placement of Water Extraction Points

The Three Elements

The Design of the Barn

Section Through Landscape

Interior of Barn Space - First Floor (for animals and machinery)

Interior of Barn Space - Ground Floor (for farmers)
