Matthew Moffitt (MArch I)
Leftovers
Leftovers' challenges the consensus that for architectures and landscapes to be valuable they must have a manufactured novelty. This project takes rubbish as its medium -- that which emerges not from newness, but rather from long standing 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.
Theses 2020
Leftovers
Leftovers' challenges the consensus that for architectures and landscapes to be valuable they must have a manufactured novelty. This project takes rubbish as its medium -- that which emerges not from newness, but rather from long standing 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.
Theses 2020
