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Etcetera
2018
The soft interiors are rose farms
The ground is gravel extraction
The soft interiors are homogeneous.
The ground is topographic
The soft interiors are horizontal
The ground is vertical
The soft interiors are isotropic
The ground is varied
The soft interiors are the office
The ground is the office
The soft interiors are global
The ground is regional
The soft interiors establish exterior
The ground establishes an interior
The soft interiors are light
The ground is rigid
The soft interiors are siteless
The ground is contextual
The soft interiors are timeless
The ground is time
In rural Bogota, the industrial landscape is an outcome of efficiency; the landscape reflects market forces, both regionally and globally. The commodities of rose production and gravel extraction exist simultaneously. The ground and mine is pushed to the extent of the rose production, and the interiority of the rose production is pushed to the extent of the gravel mine.
In an uncertain economic future, the two commodities dance, the choreography is an outcome of the global demands of roses (1) and local demands for building projects that require gravel (2). The project is situated between the ebb and flow of the two commodities, and asks: how might the extraction of gravel – the modification of terrain – prepare the ground for future interior farms? Rather than having an edge where the two commodities meet abruptly, the two conditions are layered on top of each other, exposing new spatial opportunities in Bogota’s industrial landscape.
Emblematic of this hybrid landscape condition, a new layer is introduced. Picturesque walks guide people through the industrial garden. The aesthetic path is orchestrated by the programmed blossoming of the flowers. When the visitor walks along contour the body moves gently through a consistent colour of roses, when the visitor walks off contour they intersect a variety of timetables, that is to say intersecting valentines day, mothers day, and Russian school day (hypothetically the colours red, purple, blue). To move on a slope, up or down is to move through a variety of roses of different colours at different stages of their programmatic schedule. When the visitor reaches the highest or lowest point they are exposed to the subcultures of roses, the on going experiments of crossing genetic roses from labs with local varieties.
