Sensing Domesticity: From Mine to Mine

Sensing Domesticity: From Mine to Mine

Zammit, Edward (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Bohne, Lauritz (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Scherer, Lea (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vrachliotis, Georg (mentor)
Sohn, H. (mentor)
Adema, F. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2022-06-28

From Mine to Mine is a research and design project that confronts the concept of the house and the domestic with its emerging context of data transmission and resource extraction. In the middle of the Atacama desert in Chile, the house of the miner is confronted with the physical outgrowth of our global data industry: Copper, the material underlying any kind of digital connection, is extracted in the world‘s biggest open-pit mine, while the mining industry is destructing and contaminating a whole territory.

Thinking towards a time of copper depletion, From Mine to Mine, envisions in three chapters transitions for these copper landscapes - turning them from destructive into productive ones while giving agency to the house of the miner itself. From there, the miner of the future enters remotely through screens the three chapters - “The Toxic Forest“, “The Baquedano Oasis“ and “The London Mine“ - all mines in their on right, that materially and programmatically feed into the house. This way, the house becomes both consumer and constructor of a context in trans-ition, a context that is being “mined“ trans-territorially, trans-temporally and trans-disciplinarily.

Chile
digital
Extraction
Domesticity
Home
technology
sensors
Mining
Resources
materials
transition

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2022 Edward Zammit, Lauritz Bohne, Lea Scherer