Flood, North Sea, the city and the envisioned apocalypse
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The Ark: Conceptual Mapping and the Realization
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Antwerp's Artefacts
The Archival Relationship: City, Block, Scale & The Ark and its relevance
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Deconstructing the Ark
Constituting components of the Ark
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Ark Capsule
The Ark Capsule is a self sustaining piece of capsule, capable to withstand various environmental condition.
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The Construction Process & Timeline of the Ark
A timeline of construction on the River Scheldt, across a timeline span of centuries. As a narrated, timeline, necessity based line of construction, according to the needs of time being.
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The Ark Anthropology
An in-depth understanding on the societal, progressive & cultural norms of the Ark.
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The Blueprint
Ground level: Archive Chamber
First Level: Upper Archive Chamber
Second Level: The Grand Walkway
Third Level: Vault of the Artefacts
Fourth Level: Garden of Eden & Vault of Paintings
Fifth Level: The Vault of Archives (in the Ark of Capsule)
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Future of Ark Capsule ; End of the Ark
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Andrew Law, a Malaysian-Born Architecture student. His design ethos, believe that Architecture, in its very elemental state, is able to convey an emotional influence to us, as a human beings. He is heavily interested in dealing with the contrasting scales of Architectural intervention, from the minimalism of Architecture, to the “avant-garde” provocations such as Utopias, Heterotopia, investigating the conflicts and the effects of both scales of Architecture to our human society, as a machine, it is all to deal with human beings.
In his final thesis, “The Ark of Antwerp”, a provocation against the apocalypse in a foreseen-able future, as the city is in a flooded state. The thesis deals with the preservation, conservation of the tangibles and intangibles of the soon-to-be vanished city, Antwerp. From a sole-flood barrier to a memory preserver. Where Antwerp is understood as a fragmented city, that is used to be fortified and what is going to be happened in the state of post-apocalypse.
His other work (of competition and academic) and architectural exploration can be browsed in the link below.
A timeline of construction on the River Scheldt, across a timeline span of centuries. As a narrated, timeline, necessity based line of construction, according to the needs of time being.
Ground level: Archive Chamber
First Level: Upper Archive Chamber
Second Level: The Grand Walkway
Third Level: Vault of the Artefacts
Fourth Level: Garden of Eden & Vault of Paintings
Fifth Level: The Vault of Archives (in the Ark of Capsule)