ARCHIVING THE FOREST: DS5
DS5 explored the British countryside and its temporal layers through archives, film, and model making. Embracing subjective logic, we weave dreams and memories into personal archives, creating new perspectives on reality. Film becomes a conduit for translating imagination into architectural proposals, reshaping our relationship with the landscape. Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire is our site, housing ancient woodlands and limestone grasslands. Here, we observe, archive, and narrate, crafting interventions that embody the site's cinematic potential. DS5 celebrates curiosity, experimentation, and the journey over the destination. Through observation, montage, narration, and intervention, we cultivate dynamic spaces that redefine our understanding of time and the natural world.
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Marko Milovanovic, Raha Farazmand
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Brigitte Clements, Kiril Kuzmanov, Nichola Barrington-Leach, Iseult Cambell-Lange
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Jing Xiang Koh, Syifa Zamri, Sara Jaafar, Alex Berger, Tze Shuang Tan, Shereen Raslan, Tereza Flidrova, Sameep Rai, Muhammad Amin Abdullahi, Anastasia Valanidou, Sofea Othman
Wytham Leaf Guild
Tze Shuang Tan
Themes: Environment, Sustainability, Humanitarian efforts, Innovation, Experimentation
The Leaf Guild is an anonymous group of craftsmen who has been practising leaf crafts in Wytham Woods, at the west side of Oxford surrounded by agricultural lands. The craftsmen initiated secret gatherings at different seasons, sharing the common fascination for leaf collection and how leaf could be processed into objects benefitting the modern society. Recently, they discovered the art of creating paper on-site to be in sync with the seasons, their “wish-list” of inventories formulates the brief : a complex comprising a workshop, contemplating bridge and a living tower. As in the hymn to Hephaestus, the Greek God of artisans, manual labour in the form of craftwork was embraced to be productive and the virtue of sheer hard work was celebrated and honoured in higher levels of societal hierarchy. Utilising simple tools driven by manual labour, the ritualistic tradition of making things became the genus loci of the place of practice, forming unique patterns of order specific to the site. Through the use of locally-sourced materials and reuse of forest byproducts, a new architectural language is woven seamlessly into the rich multi-layered fabric of the ever-changing forest-scape.
Retiring Dairy Cow's Farm
Jing Xiang Koh
Themes: Humanitarian efforts, Postgraduate
Retiring dairy cow’s farm is a proposed farm for the dairy cows that can't produce milk anymore. Most of the dairy cows will get slaughtered for their meat when they can't produce milk anymore. This project aims to provide a space for them to extend their lifespan by saving them after they cannot produce milk or become sick. This project will start by fund raising from people who are interested in saving the dairy cows and adopting them. Therefore, all of the cows are sponsored by their owners and keep this project running by agritourism.
The core value of this project is to set the dairy cows free as they had suffered enough by producing milk for humans. This is a farm provided for them to live as real cows rather than a product of dairy industries. They are proposed to stay in the barn in this project. They can enjoy their life and spend the rest of their life here before they die naturally. There is a barn that is used to select the cows that are sick and cannot produce milk anymore to quarantine and take care of them. They will stay in an isolated barn until they recover. Some healthy cows that still can produce milk will be sent back to the farm and the rest will stay here until they die.
Owners and tourists can enter this farm to interact with these dairy cows to experience their daily life. There is accommodation provided for both human and dairy cows. People will be in charge of feeding them and cleaning them, and helping the veterinarian to record their body data. The design of this project is to equalise the hierarchy between human and dairy cows, to show gratitude for those cows that suffer for our needs.