The Drowning Earth

This sci fi project is created by combining the concepts of spolia and heterotopia, represented in a hyper-drawing

Part 1: Taxonomy of a building located at Gröna Lund. In collaboration with Alice Stone.

Humans keep adapting to the rise in sea levels and exponential population growth, by developing systems to dwell below and above water.

This project creates a space that reflects the way the human race once lived. Functions of a traditional city such as residential apartments, commercial spaces, schools and medical facilities are stacked vertically, to create a towering city. Horizontal construction was avoided to protect the structures from the high waves that now dominate the oceans.

“….. to create a space that is other, another real space, as perfect, as meticulous, as well arranged as ours is messy, ill-constructed, and jumbled.”

— Of Other Spaces, Michel Foucault-

Spolia are building elements or materials in reuse and refers to "any artifact incorporated into a setting culturally or chronologically different from that of its creation" -Kinney, D. (2006) The Concept of Spolia -

Heterotopia is regarded as the opposite of Utopia, a space of otherness.

Hyper-drawing A multi-layered composition projecting techniques and methods of representations such as taxonomies, axonometries, drawings and analogies in one whole drawing.