Calamity Library

The goal of the Calamity Library ARCH704 Studio is to create HYBRIDS, to develop architectural interventions for the more and more defunct infrastructures in the Mississippi, such as levees, dams, etc., for human or post-human occupation. The intersection of the large infrastructural structures with a precise architectural inserts as hybrid structures could greatly benefit the state of the Mid-American city. Human interventions in the Anthropocene have disturbed the natural water balance with catastrophic results and it is time to re-calibrate. We are not so much interested in the study of the ‘control’ of water -- many biologists are working on this -- but more in how these architectural interventions / inventions would integrate into the flood landscapes and riverbanks, and how they could instigate urban, economic and cultural change.