OPPORTUNISTIC OCCUPATION Port Fourchon, Louisiana USA
DOMAIN
RE BA YNE NH R AM
CANADA
LOOP
NORTH SEA
RESOURCE GEOGRAPHY
ECOLOGY ARABIAN GULF
la: the architecture of four ecologies
MEXICO
PLATFORM / WELL / TERMINAL / REFINERY SHALLOW WATER DEEP WATER ULTRADEEP WATER
WEST AFRICA the infrastructural city: networked ecologies in la
MO EC STA O F UR LOG AVI: BA ICA NI L SM
petropia
BIOME SHIFT
REGIONAL & GLOBAL FLOWS CA LUI S PA LLE MP JA HL S: 33 ET
INFRASTRUCTURE
paul rudolph: lower manhattan expressway
P BE IER LA RE NG ER
infra net lab
LO G
IS
TI
CS
BIOME SHIFTS CI T W YLA PA B: 2.0
eth studio basel: canary islands keller easterling: gsap
S stoll + lloyd: infrastructure as architecture
keller easterling: disruptive
LA T OF ERA CO FIC L UP E: LI NG
stan allen: infrastructural urbanism
t?f: hong kong fantasies
URBANISM
BIOME SHIFT
ECONOMY
alan berger
geoff manaugh
A SY D: ST CI EM TY
U NE TIL TW ITY OR K
GEOGRAPHY OF RESOU
KO REM JU OLH NK AA SP S: AC E
C SH UFF ER + M UR FF AN: BA NI SM
keller easterling: hedge
very high very high
CA
high
LA
very low
LA
very low
Urban & Regional Ramifications
CA
high
The Shifting Landmass of Southern Louisiana
LOCATION Mississippi River
x
New Orleans
projected tomorrow
today
x
Port Fourchon
x
Shifting Landmass of Southern Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Source: Petrochemical America
Infrastructure of Resource Extraction
Source: Petrochemical America
Politics of Toxic Remains
Source: David Kidd
Conditioned Landscapes
MICRO-LOCATION
Relationship between Conditioned & Natural
ARCHITECTURAL DEVICES
“Rovers” As Remediators
FIELD OF OBJECTS
Ecological Remediation + Economic Agendas
ARCHITECTURE OF INFRASTRUCTURE
URBAN EFFECT
temporary housing defunct oil bores
launching jetty
Architecture of Infrastructure
OPPORTUNISTIC OCCUPATION
Field of Objects