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Description
Architecture must do more to propose creative alternatives to normative practices of building material extraction. Recently, architects and engineers in the UK, France and Spain have begun experimenting with load-bearing stone architecture, deeply driven by a sustainability agenda. At the same time, interest is growing in pre-capitalist and indigeonous relations with the landscape, where materials were often extracted in a direct relationship with the local building culture. These developments create an opportunity to confront the question of extraction with one of architecture’s most exploited materials: natural stone.
The complexity of the problem, from quarry landscape to building design, demands a multi-disciplinary approach. The project team is comprised of scientific experts in earth sciences, environmental sciences, and sustainability sciences. It furthermore engages with industry partners in quarry practices and building engineering to ensure a vital link with current developments in applied methods. Our common goal is to examine the entirety of stone extraction as an inter-connected, cyclical process, from the quarry, to building design, and back to quarry rehabilitation. Moving away from large-scale, intensive quarrying, we investigate natural stone in architecture as an ecology, one that takes as much care for what is taken as is left behind.
The complexity of the problem, from quarry landscape to building design, demands a multi-disciplinary approach. The project team is comprised of scientific experts in earth sciences, environmental sciences, and sustainability sciences. It furthermore engages with industry partners in quarry practices and building engineering to ensure a vital link with current developments in applied methods. Our common goal is to examine the entirety of stone extraction as an inter-connected, cyclical process, from the quarry, to building design, and back to quarry rehabilitation. Moving away from large-scale, intensive quarrying, we investigate natural stone in architecture as an ecology, one that takes as much care for what is taken as is left behind.
Status | Active |
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Effective start/end date | 01/09/2022 → 30/06/2025 |
Keywords
- stone
- architecture
- landscape ecology
- geology
- extraction
- quarry
Activities
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Ecologies of Stone project presentation
Jonathan Foote (Lecturer)
26 Apr 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Ecologies of Stone and Post-Extractive Material Practice
Jonathan Foote (Lecturer)
10 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Ecologies of Stone Workshop #1 Larvik
Jonathan Foote (Organizer), Urszula Koźmińska (Participant), Robert B. Trempe Jr. (Participant), Antonio Bernacchi (Participant) & Alicia Lazzaroni (Participant)
14 Sept 2023 → 15 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Paret d'esquerdes (Cracked Wall)
Foote, J., Francisco Cifuentes Utrero, Koźmińska, U. & Trempe Jr., R. B., 26 May 2023Publications: Non-textual form › 2D/3D (psysical products) › Research
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The Architecture of the Nordic Marble 'left-over'
Foote, J. & Trempe Jr., R. B., 4 Nov 2022Publications: Non-textual form › Contribution to exhibition › Research › peer-review
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