Kacper Sehnke Y5
Residual Territories: A Field Observatory for Climatic Registration
How can architecture operate as a climatic register, making environmental instability visible through capture, accumulation, weathering, material trace and mechanical choreography?
Across the Stura di Lanzo, flooding, sediment movement, airborne pollution, heat and humidity continually reshape a post-industrial river landscape. Six inhabitable research stations engage these conditions through capture, delay, deposition, saturation, drying and release, accumulating environmental change as visible spatial and material evidence. Drawing on the Smithsons’ Climate Register, architecture is an instrument, altered by the forces it observes. Instability is continuously recorded, processed and disclosed. Through occupation, maintenance and mechanical choreography, the stations make ecological change, and the labour required to observe and understand it, spatially and materially perceptible.
