Denmark’s Strange Natures: Geological Research Center

A goal of our Geological Research Center is to create HYBRIDS, to develop architectural interventions that coincide with, and support the interconnectedness of the social and ecological systems located among the cliffs. Students create a “sedimentary architecture” that variably engages the cliffs and the processes that bore them, proposing structures that integrate literally within them.

We challenge the notion of a horizontally grounded architecture, instead promoting one inserted into a vertical context, with minimal impact on the site. The Studio researches and proposes a Net-Zero Geological Research Center dedicated to the study climate change within a series of naturally formed limestone and chalk cliffs located along the eastern coast of the Danish Island of Møn.