- Title
- Mutable matter : a waste expo, 13 transverseterritory
- Creator
- Krone, Katherine May
- Subject
- Exhibition buildings - South Africa - Durban - Design and construction, Waste products as building materials, Architecture and society
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/293334
- Identifier
- uj:31893
- Description
- Abstract: This project proposes an exhibition for World Expo 2025 where participants from around the world are invited to design a pavilion that poses questions and reflections on The Expo’s title theme Reinterpreting the Unintentional Landscapes of Man.1 The purpose of this exposition is to question what the role of architecture is in transforming global waste cultures. The event unfolds over six months and is located on the site of the old Durban International Airport in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The site has been elected by local government for the construction of the Durban Dig-Out Port, a secondary port that is planned to be constructed in order to deal with rising demands of incoming cargo at Durban harbor. The new port’s construction has been halted until further review in 2030 and the expo is planned to take occupation of this site-in-transformation from 2025. In this project, the design of World Expo 2025 acknowledges the historical legacy of world expos and adopts similar strategies for the creation of a curated landscape inhabited by multiple key pavilions that extend the central question of the expo. The temporary pavilion model is used in this project as a means to challenge pre-conceived ideas of what an architectural object ought to be and makes suggestions of what architecture could possibly be, beyond the simplistic interpretation of applying waste as building material. What does architecture mean in this time of intense consumption and disposal? What portion of our current reality is propped up by its own referential image, masking the true reality of irresponsible..., M.Tech. (Architecture)
- Contributor
- Wright, E., Morgado, C., Dawjee, M.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Johannesburg
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