ARCHITECTURAL THESIS 2026
The Fossil
A civic archive designed to be gradually absorbed by time—architecture as an archaeological warning.
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AnArchaeologicalWarning
Centred around stainless steel time capsules containing testimonies of contemporary civilisation, the project confronts the consequences of human consumption by turning architecture into an archaeological warning.
Rainwater is channelled through the roof and amphitheatre grooves to passively trigger the capsules' descent into reinforced burial shafts, while the manually deployable scissor-linkage roof progressively flattens into the terrain.
Through kinetic structure, material lifespan studies, embodied carbon analysis, and physical prototyping, the building becomes a technically resolved posthuman system: ultimately a geological layer for future generations to uncover.
Designed for Entropy
Every element is engineered to transform predictably through calculated entropy, creating a building that actively participates in its own dissolution.
Kinetic Roof
Scissor-linkage mechanism designed to progressively flatten over decades
Rainwater Descent
Natural forces trigger the descent of capsules into burial shafts
Material Entropy
Calculated decay transforms architecture into geological stratum
Project Documentation
12 works
Amphitheatre Interior
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Archive Library
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Site Context
Masterplan
South Elevation
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Building Section
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Long Section
Drawing
Rainwater System
Systems
Exploded Axonometric
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Floor Plan
Drawing
Circulation Plan
Drawing
Elevations Study
Drawing
Temporal Decay Study
Diagram
“A geological layer for future generations to uncover”
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