landfill as a source
third year project semester I
The Repository of the Human Condition is a laboratory for a scientist who studies society through its traces – garbage. Various trash wells are spread around the surface providing scientist with working material. The wells are equipped with excavation rigs for monolith extraction. Each sample is sealed up for safe transportation and delivered to the lab. Layer-by-layer, year-by-year garbologist examines the trash column. After the study is completed and the information is documented, a column becomes the part of the ever-growing Repository of the Human Condition.
Garbology as a science was established in 1987 by American archaeologist William Rathje. (Top)
The first Rainham Landfill Site investigations. (Bottom)
The first Rainham Landfill Site investigations. (Bottom)
Bird's-eye view of the Rainham Landfill Site.
Initial comparative analysis for Tarkovsky's Stalker's stills and Rainham's views.
1. Landfill Site in Rainham: methane pipes map. 2. Landfill Site in Rainham: negative space available for the proposed garbological investigation.
Rainham Landfill Site Perspective from the opposite bank of the River Thames
1:200 model of the Garbological Lab Isometric view of the site strategy
Isometric views of the Garbological Laboratory.
Plans for the Garbological Laboratory, Monolith Extraction Rig and Repository.
Site strategy section.
The Repository of the Human Condition section.
1. Information Extraction – Concept Collage. 2. Garbological Laboratory Perspective. 3. Sample Investigation Platform.
A worm's-eye view of the Repository
Night surveillance over the site from the Landing Platform of the Garbological Laboratory.
