over the summer before I answer my final
term I’ve taken a huge interest with
soil I began to collect many different
type of saw and began to do an
experiment with it so I remember my mom
came to my room and say why are you
playing with dirt and then my sister
came in my room and say you are not
playing to eat those aren’t you I told
them relax guys this is just an
experiment so I began to mix soil with
soil binder and then I began to cast and
mold them in the desired form that I
want I did this because I am very
curious with the what stall can can do
and can’t do and I also like the idea of
how soil can be expressed in its most
delicate manner so the notion of soil is
often is very significant to
relationship of human in certain
cultures humans believe that salt is
provides physical healing and spiritual
cleansing burying always takes place in
soil in this to image it shows two
similar activities but different type of
function humans in these two image
humans are actually buried but with just
one is dead and one is alive so in a way
salsa represent these two things it
represents the beginning and the end it
was discussed some living things born
from soil and some ends with soil and
soul is often a fish associated
associated as dirt but Susan human and
animals they believe thats all
physically cleaned their body so what
does all this mean in my research I
always seek to understand the values of
humans and their belief
and their culture that they have with
soil and in a way this informs in
architecture so I compose this collage
of the many elements of my research and
this led me to question the relationship
is human the thoughts and the space they
occupy so while the world well the soul
may seem like it’s abundant as they are
like skin of the earth but however
research has shown that the world has
only 60 years of topsoil left this was
released probably two years ago this
statement so I guess we have 58 years of
topsoil left so why is so soil vanishing
to reason number one is deforestation
number two is because of heavily
chemical farm this which led to salty
gradation so why haven’t we heard about
this probably because salt is salt
because tall isn’t sexy people don’t
always associate solve with many things
such as health environment security and
climates thankfully there are ways to
produce new soul which is true organic
waste compost
however the question is how much salt
can we provide and how much can we
produce so while a third of us all is
degrading already human population
continue to grow and in a rapid numbers
so which makes me think sorry
which makes me think of like the future
civilizations condition in a way I see
in a future civilization civilization we
have a lot to deal with we have to deal
with that the loss of food food growth
we have to deal with draw climate change
and we have to do with limited space so
this is where I begin to research about
underground architecture good
underground architecture could
accommodate all these problems
provide extra spaces to the future
civilization so I begin to research what
is the idea on the ground because this
will after that will influence in my
design in architecture so under
underground architecture sometimes
associate with religion and I like how
churches and temples are actually carved
and dealt with in the subterranean I
like the method of construction of
digging and carving with the existing
landscape so underground is also
represent as the division of heaven and
earth
mythical horizontal line that separate
the sky and the earth the Underground’s
provides protections security when it
comes to like for example World War two
or there’s bomb and they believe that it
could actually shelter them the
underground is a city there’s something
about the underground that separates
from the book reality land that provides
many possibility of what could actually
happens beneath them so this led at this
point I mean my research I began to
question about the value of soil and
then how does civilization deal with if
it’s already extinct the first thing
that came into my mind is that I
believed the value of soil will increase
and it’s gonna be so rare and precious
could stall actually replace money could
it be a currency so I began to think
about the economics of soil which
probably could gave birth to a city
maybe it’s a city that prosper from
making news all to dispute to distribute
around the world
maybe this city could also celebrate and
values about the culture of soil so I
call this city the soil city so the
salsa tea take place in Greenwich
Peninsula London this is where my
context so in order to understand the
civilization one must understand
the history and the context of the
landscape so the interesting thing about
Greenwich Peninsula is that it used to
be a marshland and then he became a
guest industry land and then it became a
commercial and residential development
so I always liked the idea where the
landscape is the architecture of the
city and so I began to collect I became
to merge the previous structure of
buildings footprints and and the
foundation of the of what of the
previous building that takes place in
Greenwich Peninsula and then I began to
in an archaeological kind of approach I
began to excavate and dig this structure
out from beneath because I believe
architectures is informed with the
existing and the past stories so when I
start excavating Greenwich Peninsula the
underground tube and the Blackwall
tunnel that exists beneath the
underground is now revealed and then it
and this is where I believe the city
sort of take place I began to insert the
the programs and the space that is
required for soil city into the
landscape so this is how it looks like
when Sala city actually takes place in
in Greenwich Peninsula so this is how
the city works behind the city is where
we have this vast stretch of landscape
of ingredients these landscape are
ingredients accommodates the raw
ingredients of salt production and then
towards the tips of the peninsula is
where the the production takes place
that’s where the stall Bank is the
saltopus tree the salt plantation and
where there’s a salt salt bay to export
to the the rest part of the world and
the middle of the city is where people
live in there I call it the soil houses
this is what I imagine this whole
production would look like those are
organic waste truck dumping down organic
waste to the chute to the underground
and then it spreads out in belts so I
feel like this production could be a
very wonderful thing it has this
wonderful movement that goes across the
landscape this is what I envision of how
the entrance to us the underground soil
lab and there will be a scientist
researching about soil and how they can
consider constantly research about how
to preserve and conserve this precious
soil this is what I imagine how the
stall bank oil houses look like and
there’s behind there there is a
Greenwich tube coming across and this is
how it looks like to spend beneath a
cathedral or salt depository and above
is a step well of plantation so the
sparsity shall take place during the
most stressful period time that human
being is actually facing however I
believe civilization through the
toughest times civilization are still
able to celebrate and believe in the
culture that they develop along the way
so this is what’s also it is about it
ultimately question how civilization
responds to the salt extinction and this
natural disaster but the heart of the
project touches on how the civilization
you could celebrate and value the
culture that they develop along the way
through the darkest time thank you [Applause]