TANK WORLDS

Fiki Falola

Tank Worlds : Miniaturising the Gigantic
Littorally Wide and Close

Oscillating between wide and close, this project reconsiders what it means to inhabit a littoral zone by problematizing colonial ways of understanding land and sea-moving to an understanding that conceptualizes land in terms of material gradients and their “holding capacities for water.” Zooming in to the macro level-close, investigating what it means to occupy the littoral edge transpires into conceptual devices that aggregate and accumulate, working with the natural flow of water and sediment to create architectural opportunities for building. The operations of these devices e.g., collecting sediment and channeling water become both conceptual and literal strategies in which to consider habitation or remediation of selected edge conditions along the site.