Sunning Metabolisms
2019—2021
This design-fiction project reimagines resort architectures and resort cultures as places that can facilitate body recovery and modification. The scenario emphasises the relation between the human body and the intake of vitamin D from the sun to initiate the calcium metabolism that later contributes to a healthier bone anatomy. The layout of the scenario is defined by the solar path; with the site itself situating at the point on Earth that is closest to the sun, Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. The work rethinks how spaces of health improvement can be established in a way that makes full use of geological and astronomical knowns. Putting forward the idea that collective spaces should not just be appreciated as sites that are empty or full, but instead as places that are activated at particular times of the day.
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Site Plan
2019—2021
This design-fiction project reimagines resort architectures and resort cultures as places that can facilitate body recovery and modification. The scenario emphasises the relation between the human body and the intake of vitamin D from the sun to initiate the calcium metabolism that later contributes to a healthier bone anatomy. The layout of the scenario is defined by the solar path; with the site itself situating at the point on Earth that is closest to the sun, Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. The work rethinks how spaces of health improvement can be established in a way that makes full use of geological and astronomical knowns. Putting forward the idea that collective spaces should not just be appreciated as sites that are empty or full, but instead as places that are activated at particular times of the day.
The project suggests that the future of human recovery and regeneration is one where the body is situated at a specific location in the world, where the conditions of that site contribute to a particular metabolic or rehabilitative state in the body.
This work explores some of the specific complexities that surround hydroxyapatite bone graft substitution (a technology that sees artificial bone scaffolds support the regrowth of natural bone within the body). Such complexities have been re-contextualised to form a conceptual ecology on Mount Chimborazo.
As part of the project a series of details were produced to further suppose the idea that architectures can be sites of focused health regeneration.
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Earth’s Perihelion and Aphelion
Diagram
2020
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Earth’s Perihelion and Aphelion
Diagram
2020
Milk Bar Area
