TERRA FIRMA

Aggregational Social Integrity

In response to the environmental deterioration of the rice terraces in Banaue in Philippines, what it is proposed is series of programmatically reactive componentry which allows for the simultaneous existence of the two dominant functional typologies of tourism and agriculture.

The architecture continuously exists in a state of duality where the half lives are extended through temporal transformation, viewing platforms become solar cells, structural units exist as vessels for grain storages, and dwellings become the scaffolds for communal markets. By flowing through the veins of the artificial topography, holistic body of the architecture seeks only to reinforce and sustain the existing syntax of the landscape.

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Above | Develop Fundamental Structural and Functional Components with Various Assembly Methods

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Above | Tourism + Housing + Market Platform

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project with David Mans : NEOARCHAIC.NET