Thesis: Tone Chu

aria/arium
 

aria (n.): air; or tunes
-arium (suffix): a place for or connected with

This thesis is interested in how design can on different scales – both physical and temporal – elucidate the relationships between the built environment and the atmosphere, particularly in the context of Global Warming and environmental sensing in our times. 

In what some call the Anthropocene, the climate has emerged as a hyperobject, to which humans only possess partial access. Particularly, in the Arctic regions, significant infrastructures have been established for the sensing, recording, and offsite analysis of numeric data. The Arctic is at the crossroad of preserving or reshaping its terrain. While emphasizing a global perspective, the region lacks in-situ and long-term strategies that take its own landscape’s uncertain future into consideration. This project aims to speculate designs that can expand our notion of measurement, interventions that are embedded and partaking in the climate processes which they are observing. It is to conceive geo-informatic landscape and architecture that register interactions between air and ground, between scientific analysis and cultural perception.