Honorable Mention
2014 Skyscraper Competition
The project is designed in
the copper Ruashi mine in Lubumbashi, Congo which is predicted to stop
production in 2020. The mine would then be abandoned and left as an enormous
urban void surrounded by a rapidly expanding city.
The Here-After projects
seeks to make use of the left over space, waste soil, and sulfuric acid from
the mine drainage and former copper production. A machine will reuse the waste
soil to neutralize the sulfuric acid, which in turn will be used to erode the
land to be used as raw buildings blocks for the project.
As the machine operates,
starting from the South end, the remaining structures from the neutralization
process would be reconfigured as a university campus. Throughout the building
process the contour, the campus, and the public spaces would continuously
change their relationships and form.