Living Hallow: Interwoven Futures

The main idea of creating a process of restoration and recuperation via natural processes that includes phytoremediation and growing fibrous plants to later benefit from them as construction materials for the new settlement, and to devise a productive economic cycle that prioritizes the community within a holistic socio-ecological scenario are the strong conceptual ideas of the project. However, the project later does not sufficiently explore the many possibilities of this narrative, it lacks detailed material, spatial, urban scale definitions which could be unraveled with diagrams, plans, sections, etc. The textual explanation is very elaborated and thought-provoking, yet the drawings and the visuals do not sufficiently discover the suggested scenarios and the networks of the text.

The ecologic components of the urban regeneration including local plantation strategies that will benefit the overall settlement composition and constructions, is one of the strongest strategies found in the project. Nonetheless, the projects dismiss to explore the future configurations and probable phases that the new settlement will accommodate in the future. The strong narrative of the project is not backed up by an equally strong characterization and depiction of the project.