Infrascapes
infrastructural wastelands
Led by field research of Los Angeles’ derelict water infrastructure, this project resulted in a multi-media installation of visual, material and sonic artefacts.
The Ascot Hills resemble a strange synthetic landscape, struck by erosion and drought, fenced off and fortified, and containing underground water structures that were originally meant to improve the fate of the city. Left abandoned, a series of animations made of on-site recordings and digital additions, paired with a projection mapped onto the physical model of the area, speculate on the fictional process of rediscovering the site through terraforming and the arrival of new, cyborganic forms of living.
Via motion tracking techniques, real environments of decay and distress are captured and overlayed with modelled speculative futures. Within a Game Engine environment, fictional symbiosises of the natural-technical continuum are postulated, expressed in projections across multiple scales and timelines.
Los Angeles, 2022
Academic
The Ascot Hills resemble a strange synthetic landscape, struck by erosion and drought, fenced off and fortified, and containing underground water structures that were originally meant to improve the fate of the city. Left abandoned, a series of animations made of on-site recordings and digital additions, paired with a projection mapped onto the physical model of the area, speculate on the fictional process of rediscovering the site through terraforming and the arrival of new, cyborganic forms of living.
Via motion tracking techniques, real environments of decay and distress are captured and overlayed with modelled speculative futures. Within a Game Engine environment, fictional symbiosises of the natural-technical continuum are postulated, expressed in projections across multiple scales and timelines.
Los Angeles, 2022
Academic
Multimedia Projections, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2022
site photography
