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CREVICE

The Weather Archive

Crevice examines the way in which material accumulation may exploit the additive and subtractive qualities of space-making.  Utilizing the site's underground, empty, catacomb-like spaces, these voids are filled with sheets of limestone.  This dense material matter is revealed at the ground level through cuts and slices, while the earth is held back with sheets of steel, which rust over time when exposed to water and snow.  The exposed masses of limestone slowly disintegrate, revealing an immediately undetectable porosity within the material and creating openings that celebrate the qualities of weathering and decay.  New pathways are created to transverse over these voids, forming a new landscape, both subterranean and at the ground level, that exposes the thickness and instability of the ground.  "Plugs" that hold water are placed over the site's existing manholes, ultimately facilitating the growth of plants, attracting animals, and new life within the site.  Crevice designs the site as a juxtaposition of its history and internal logic - rather than filtering water as it once did through highly-controlled infrastructive, the site now allows water to chart its own path, purposely allowing material deterioration to shape its form and experience.

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