Soft & Wet proposes a Geo-Engineering and Climate Research Centre for Bangkok, reimagining the city’s hydrological future. The project reconnects the Gulf of Thailand with Bangkok’s historic canal networks while exploring ecological terra-formation strategies using sediment generated through parrotfish reef cycles.
Year 5
Location
Collaborator
Unit 24
London, United Kingdom
Gabriel Cooper
The project investigate the idea of the crypto-colony: a territory situated between colonial powers where ecological consciousness becomes politically and geographically contingent.
The final project unfolds as a filmic architecture, portraying Bangkok in 2050 after large-scale terra-alteration. Through allegory, symbolism, and augmented landscapes, the narrative critiques ecological nostalgia and questions how future climate infrastructures may reproduce—or subvert—the historical logics of empire, territory, and environmental control.
The final project unfolds as a filmic architecture, portraying Bangkok in 2050 after large-scale terra-alteration. Through allegory, symbolism, and augmented landscapes, the narrative critiques ecological nostalgia and questions how future climate infrastructures may reproduce—or subvert—the historical logics of empire, territory, and environmental control.