Plyglass
Material,
2025
- Title
- Carbon to Rock
- Type
Material Study
- Location
Biennale Architettura 2021
- Year
2023
- Description
Carbon To Rock looks at the emergence of new geoengineering technologies of CO2 mineralization, studying the key role that volcanic basalt plays at a molecular level in the process of turning gas into calcite.
- Design
Cristina Parreño, Sergio Araya
- Fabrication
Cristina Parreño, Sergio Araya,
Cuellar Stone Company- Contributors
Peč lab from Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT
This project is all about time: short and long time, shallow and deep time, human time and planetary time.
It’s about all the vastly different temporal scales that make the crisis of climate change. Those temporal dimensions that we understand, and those that escape the human intellect. Those timescales that reveal climate change as an urgent fast-moving crisis; and those timescales where the unquestionable urgency is disguised by a complex network of temporal causalities.
It’s about the timescales of the “urgent now,” of us, living in this planet; and the timescales of the “deep future”, of them, future generations to come. The temporal dimensions of immediate devastating consequences occurring in this moment, of glaciers melting, sea levels rising, hurricanes, floods and fires affecting our most vulnerable communities and ecosystems. The timescales that require from us fast radical action, game-changing science and technology, rapid solutions. All of it, imperative, urgent, necessary.
The Ruins and the Elevated Massing
The library hovers 5 meters above the ruins of Emona, creating a space where the ancient city remains visible from the outside, merging the urban present with its historical foundations
It’s about all the vastly different temporal scales that make the crisis of climate change. Those temporal dimensions that we understand, and those that escape the human intellect. Those timescales that reveal climate change as an urgent fast-moving crisis; and those timescales where the unquestionable urgency is disguised by a complex network of temporal causalities.
This project is all about time: short and long time, shallow and deep time, human time and planetary time.
It’s about all the vastly different temporal scales that make the crisis of climate change. Those temporal dimensions that we understand, and those that escape the human intellect. Those timescales that reveal climate change as an urgent fast-moving crisis; and those timescales where the unquestionable urgency is disguised by a complex network of temporal causalities.
It’s about the timescales of the “urgent now,” of us, living in this planet; and the timescales of the “deep future”, of them, future generations to come. The temporal dimensions of immediate devastating consequences occurring in this moment, of glaciers melting, sea levels rising, hurricanes, floods and fires affecting our most vulnerable communities and ecosystems. The timescales that require from us fast radical action, game-changing science and technology, rapid solutions. All of it, imperative, urgent, necessary.
