Date of Award
Spring 6-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Amelyn Ng
Second Advisor
Shou Jie Eng
Third Advisor
Carl Lostritto
Abstract
Salt Infrastructures & Geographies presents itself as a collection of unordered documents, drawings, and images. This allows the reader to move freely between different fragments of the thesis and consequently jump across the varying scales of geography and time that salt takes form in.
The research and language of this project was developed from an initial index tracing the presence of salt across the planet. This index (found in the following pages) understands salt as multiscalar and of varying visibility. In this index salt is a remnant of geology-past, public safety agent, and the center of a global extraction and seasonal stockpiling system.
Following research undertaken through a series of maps, drawings, catalogs, and diagrams, Salt Infrastructures & Geographies proposes three interventions (an urban walk, a new geological benchmark, and a new public shed) that exist amongst salt’s already nebulous presence.
Recommended Citation
Voogt, Jordan, "Salt infrastructures & geographies" (2022). Masters Theses. 891.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/891
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View exhibition online: Jordan Voogt, Salt Infrastructures & Geographies