KAVE SHINTHU PRABAKHERRAN
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The Terra we accommodate is a mixture of life (human, plants and trees), lifeless (dead plants), and intermediate species (such as caterpillar, cocoon) or elements. The Terrapolis to be established is conceptualized as the interface of these multispecies or happenings into an intervention within the ruins of Patna Opium Factory which attempts to facilitate an adaptable environment.
In Staying with the trouble, Donna J. Haraway positions minutiae species as significant. That has influenced the proposal of a Butterfly Habitat. Where, in the life cycle of a butterfly, constructing the caterpillar as the trouble for the plants and butterfly as the pacifier by pollinating and proliferating the plants and making people challenge the trouble or the present without any hustle expresses the former idea.
Creatures were to be treated as inert objects but as knowing Subjects
TSING, Anna Lowenhaupt
broadened the stance of tiny species. This explains the contemplation from the eye of a butterfly towards a human and the coexistence with the plants.
The approach of farming on ground and a food port above helps the future farmers lacking terrain to multiply food. So, it makes the project a food spree and mart for humans, which happens to be a farm of edible vegetables and fruits and flowers that acts as a Habitat for Butterflies, which in turn increases mental health of humans. The insertion of an elevator and pathways works as the carriers, stone pergolas help to grow veggies and butterflies to take sunbathes and clay vessels act as planter pots and as the water keeper in the puddling stage of the butterflies.
The project draws upon the Food Port by Rem Koolhaas in Kentucky as a precedent for the well-being of farmers in the future deficit of Land. The recent extermination of the threatened species (butterfly) and the website of the National Wildlife Federation expressing the butterflies’ livelihood acts as an evidence for the butterfly habitat fabricated.
Ecotone | The Sentient Ruins 