The neighbour to the Church of the deaf along Åboulevarden
Model 1:50, painted mdf and massive pine
The model shows how one of the monuments rises into the scale of the cultural city scape from the large underground shaft that extend 20 meters below ground where the flooding tunnel runs.
THE NEW ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENT
Seven monuments along one of the new cloudburst flooding tunnels that run beneath the city of Copenhagen.
As the consequences of climate change increases, the efforts of hiding away the growing body of infrastructure needed to keep our cities safe seems to intensify. This dichotomy creates a large void between our way of living, and the consequences it has on our surroundings.
The project examines the relation between the city and its infrastructural layer. Is it relevant to mend the gap between life in our cultural protected sphere and the mechanisms that facilitate it - should these mechanisms also have a presence in the cultural layer of our city, rather than being covered up and hidden away under sewage caps.
The architectural monument, which relevance almost been lost and outdated might here see a new meaning.
Marking the locations for shafts leading down flood water to the tunnels, these monuments create a presence of the new infrastructure - crucial for the future mechanism of the city but without representation in the present cultural cityscape.
As a monument, they symbolize an uncertain future that we face as a collective population. As part of an infrastructure, they are technical constructions. As part of the urban fabric, they also meet their individual context with a specific function, giving a new space and thoughfulness back to the life in the cities.