00 Area of Interest Historic research and narrative architecture. Last year during the Spring Friday Lecture Series, Forensic Architecture gave a talk. Prior to that talk, the student organizers screened a couple of their documentaries. One aspect of their work that interested me was their use of architectural modelling as a tool to re-construct the scene/ what happened where for future prosecution. This unusual dovetailing of design, storytelling, and ethics/criminal justice work captured my imagination. The ‘why’ of how things came to be is fascinating to me. One studio that I took in undergrad started with the premise that all of nature had been destroyed by humans and that humans were now co-existing with animals in a completely built-over planet. I spent the whole studio developing my own version or history of
how this came to be through models and drawings. One practice’s working-method that I really respect is Global Arquitectura Paisagista in Portugal. Landscape architects, they designed the Ribeira da Naus. The project involved excavating shipyards and reusing the space in an innovative way that suited the requirement for a new public park and honoured the memory of the city’s history. This project nicely combines the
“why” and “how” that is what I find so exciting about
architecture.
