Table of contents
01 Project concept
02 Site analysis
03 General arrangement drawings
04 Building components
05 Through the spaces
06 Journey from the past to the future
07 Sign of time
Memory is the currency of this trade
“Memories have a way of trapping one’s notion of the future and placing it in a brittle series of mental prisons. Memory becomes sedentary and sooner or later finds a physical shape (art), and this memory emerges from future time. The “time traveller” as he advances deep into the future discovers a decrease in movement, the mind enters a state of “slow motions” and perceives the gravel and dust of memory on the empty fringes of consciousness.” (Smithson, 1996)
The proposal is inspired by the invisible forces that linked human races - the collective memory. Human and landscape memory are the fundamental layout of the proposal. It will embrace the past, present and future of the Hunstanton Cliff which is experiencing coastal erosion at 0.3-0.4 m/year at present. The Hunstanton Lighthouse (grade 2 listed building) will be falling into the sea in the next 30-40 years if no intervention is carrying out.
While nature declaring its territory, the building will proceed with time, allowing it to move across the landscape following the change of nature using the magnetic levitation track system. It is a piece of architecture that sits along the cliff promenade, conserving the Hunstanton Lighthouse with an extension of excavation platform up to the cliff edge and archive sitting away from the cliff edge. Equilibrium system will take existing lighthouse as the pivot point with the lightweight building (excavation platform) and counterweight heavy mass (archive) sitting on the opposite side of the track system. Both ends are connecting by public and private deployable link bridge to allow visitors and researchers to have quality time travelling to their destinations within the building while enjoying the scenic landscape. The proposal is an ultimate piece of memory to Hunstanton - ageing, growing and interacting with time.
“ Sometimes, the old is more radical than the new... Some architects conceive a building for the present, some imagine for a mythical past, while others design for a future time and place. Instead, conceiving a design as a history and a novel and a monument to a ruin envisages the past, the present and the future in a single architecture. � Jonathan Hill
Project inspiration: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa What is human without memory? “Mama, why do you remember all the things that have been disappeared? Why can you still smell the ‘perfume’ that everyone else has forgotten?” “I suppose because I’m always thinking about them,” “But I don’t understand. Why are you the only one who hasn’t lost anything? Do you remember everything? Forever?” (Ogawa, 2019)
Past
Present
Future
(memory interaction)
(memory delivery)
(memory collection)
Excavation platform
The lighthouse
Archaeology archive
Concept model
Concept model Elements gently touching the ground, or rather refuse to sit on the soil; moving with the landscape
The moving lighthouse
Memory palace
Trace of changes on the landscape
Memory and landscape
Drilling system
Mega structure
Catching net
Memory pole
Levitation track
Building guide-way
Moving mechanisms across the landscape
Continental Drift was developed mostly by Alfred Wegener in the early part of the 20th century. Plants fossils, animal fossils and rocks, mountain range and glaciers that have similar characteristic had suggested that the land are previously sharing the same memory in a different form. Earth recording it changes by the occurring of natural phenomenal, in this case plate tectonics. Today, natural geologic processes such as volcanic eruptions , coastal erosion, earthquake and tsunamis have further creating both pleasant and unpleasant memory of Earth. 500 million years ago
Laurentia (present-day North America) Baltica (present-day northern Europe)
300 million years ago
Earth entering ice age
200 million years ago
dinosaurs around the super-continent Pangea.
100 million years ago
50 million years ago
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Pangaes broke apart.
continental fragments collided, forming mountain ranges. Himalaya and other Europe Alps formed.
climate change might decrease the land size of the continents and some of the island might disappear into the ocean.
Ice core extraction through the Antarctica’s ice sheet. Fossils and bacteria that found in the ice core suggested different climate events.
Progression of North Sea
Doggerland (16,000 b.c.)
Doggerbank (5,000 b.c.)
The landscape memory
North Sea (Current)
Weight on Earth Representing volume and timeless space
Bunker archaeology Representing heftiness and low centre of gravity.
The moving architecture Study from the Halley Station - movement across the landscape
Propulsion system (moving inland)
Leviatation system (lifting the building)
Attraction system (stop the building)
Wire loop along the guide way and on the facade of the building will activate the magnetic forces when there is current input from the receiver center regarding the erosion status of the cliff. The building will move inland by alternately attracting and repelling the magnets.
Like poles of electromagnet on the track and building repel and lift the building 2.5cm above the track.
Electromagnetic system control the direction of the current flow in the wire loop thus to control the pole of the electromagnets. Opposite poles on the track and building cause the building to sit on the track.
Magnetic levitation (Maglev) system Using electromagnetic forces to initiate levitation movement of building
Crawling element on cliff face
Lifting of crawling element
Development of concept
Moving mechanisms wrapping around the lighthouse
Development of concept
Development of concept
Lightweight structure
Pivot
Heavy structure *taking F1= F2 , length of track is 150m
L1 (35m)
L2 (40m)
F1
F2
T1
T2 Stable state (default) T2 > T1
L1 (25m)
L2 (40m)
F1
F2
Stable state (30-50 years) T2 > T1
L1 (25m)
F1
Unstable state (100-150 years) T2 < T1
Equilibrium system Studying from the crane system: Central pivot, counter ballast, jib and hooking object.
L2 (12m)
F2
Second (Final) docking
First docking
Default stage
Concept movement
Lighthouse Cl
Cliff fac
WC
Exhibition Hall 1
WC
Multipurpose Hall: Workshop space/ Educational space
Excavation platform
Archive Office
Private bridge
Archive Rooms
Private & Public bridge
Meeting space
Pantry
Working platform
Plant room
WC
Information Area
WC
Exhibition Hall 2
Lighthouse Tower (Climate Experience hall)
reception
C l i ff f a ce
Lighthouse Cl
cafe
Legend Public entrance Public route Private entrance Private route Private space Public space Ticketed area Private access door
Spatial organisation
Archive office
Archive room
Research section will open to public or specialist researcher upon registration. Research room will be used by the core archaeology research and conservation team at a daily basis to: -research on artefacts found along Hunstanton Cliff. -carrying out preservation and repair on artefacts, preparing for archive. -decide on the display pieces for the public.
archive process recovery of artefacts
initial cleaning
Documentary
Curation condition: -Dark -Temperature: 13-19 °C (stable -Relative humidity: 45%-65%
Material
Curation condition: -Dark -Temperature: 15 °C (stable temperature) -Relative humidity: 35%-70%
temperature)
Documentary archive: correspondence, specifications, notes, records, indexes, catalogue, reports
classification and sorting
Bulk finds: materials that do not required special treatment or closely controlled storage conditions. Sensitive finds: required controlled storage conditions and detail recording procedures (in-situ/ after collection)
Written on paper of recognised archival quality (neutral/ mildly alkaline pH)
primary recording
Artefacts recovered must be marked with site, context and sample identifiers.
initial packing
space required
space required dark space with mechanical shelf systems for - open archives - boxed archives
recovery and preserving station cleaning station recording station packing station research room
Room 0 (human bones)
Shelf allocation
Room 1 (ancient tools)
Room 2 (core samples)
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Ferriby Chalk Formation
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Hunstanton Formation
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1667 Room 4 (fossil 2)
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Room 3 (fossil 1)
Shelf internal allocation
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Room allocation
Room 5 (fossil 3)
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Layout of archive
Carstone Formation
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The site
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Historical development around the cliff promenade Estimated retreat of 30m since 1890s
The formation of Hunstanton Cliff The Hunstanton cliff formed from the Early Cretaceous to the Late Cretaceous period (108MYA-99MYA). The colour strips of the cliff is due to the decomposition and overlaying of fossils on the sea bed across the time. The fossils and limestones found within the cliff suggest that the cliff is formed when Hunstanton is at a higher temperature and the sea level is higher than the current state. The different rock characteristic will effect the erosion rate and the erosion pattern of the cliff in the future.
Coastal erosion
Hunstanton Cliff
The past
The present
Hunstanton Lighthouse
North elevation
South elevation
East elevation
West elevation
1665- 1777 First coal fired light house built, destroyed by fire 18th century Wooden structured lighthouse built 19th century Current lighthouse built 1934-1957 Lighthouse used by Royal Observer Corps
1957-1968 Observation post stand alongside the lighthouse to prevent crew members from climbing through the living quarters 1987 Restoration and renovation Current Self-catering holiday cottage
Hunstanton Lighthouse
108 - 99 million year ago ( Cretaceous period) Cliff formed
32,000 year ago
16, 000 year ago
14, 000 year ago
1885 2020
Doggerland
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Legend 1 Excavation platform meeting space 2 Excavation platform 3 WC 4 Deployable link bridge (private) 5 Visitor entrance 6 Multipurpose outdoor space 7 Exhibition hall1 8 Exhibition hall 2 9 Lighthouse tower lift 10 Visitor information centre 11 Clock room 12 Private entrance to archive 13 Meeting space 14 Archive rooms 15 Control room
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Legend 1 Deployable link bridge 2 (public) 2 Cafe 3 Corridor (Public) 4 Archaeology receiving area 5 Research offices 6 Packaging area
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Exploded axonometric 1 Transporter 2 Public link bridge 3 Deployable private link bridge 4 Lighthouse scaffolding steel structure 5 Retractable canopy with steel frame structure 6 Precast concrete facade 7 Existing lighthouse 8 Visitor information centre
9 Hanging structure 10 Inflatable cushion & roller blind connect to control panel 11 Laylight fibreglass panel 12 Fibreglass square tubes structure with fibreglass grating 13 Retractable railing 14 Archive 15 Archive working area 16 Public corridor
17 Private corridor 18 Exhibition hall I 19 Lighthouse tower observatory platform 20 Exhibition hall II 21 Main entrance/ multipurpose outdoor space 22 Maglev track
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The maglev track 1 Concrete floor slab connecting building and the arm 2 Superconductor & Guide-way 3 Long-satator pack 4 Arm 5 Levitation electromagnet 6 Sliding hydraulically driven legs
Excavation platform Acting as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;brainâ&#x20AC;? of the system, excavation platform collect data of coastal erosion and archaeology from the eroding cliff and send it back to the archive. It provided researchers close contact with the cliff-like never before, to investigate the memory of Hunstanton Cliff. It appears to be like a light cloud, floating across the cliff face, not blocking the view of the cliff but to be part of the view. The aerodynamic facade reduces the wind load applying on the platform, providing a stable working platform. Holding up by lightweight structure, it displays the quality of the space in contrast with the bulky archive centre at another end of the system.
Extend, retract and docking of excavation platform
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The archaeology transporter Receiver tower connecting excavation platform
Transporter interconnect tower
1 Weatherproof transportation box 2 Transporter 3 Electromagnetic conveyor tube 4 Electromagnetic elevator 5 Collection window
6 Electromagnetic conveyor tube 7 Stainles steel structure 8 Concrete ballast 9 Service pad connecting to arm
The deployable bridge (Private) Connecting the multipurpose space and the excavation platform
The Lighthouse Acting as the core of the system, the lighthouse transforms from the current private holiday home into a public space. It consists of the visitors information centre, multipurpose public space, exhibition halls and lighthouse observatory tower. The new crown of the lighthouse first â&#x20AC;&#x153;bloomâ&#x20AC;? during the docking of the excavation platform, then transform in relation to the tidal changes.
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Lighthouse spaces layout 1 Exhibition hall I 2 Main arrival square/ multipurpose space 3 Public link bridge connecting visitor information centre and archive 4 Lift access to observatory platform 5 Exhibition hall II 6 Visitor information centre/ Cafe
Flowering of crown as a distress sign Crown transforms following the change of tides, which caused by the moon phases; ultimately reflecting the rapid change of nature and landscape. It allows the local community to quickly realise the time of the day and allow fishermen to predict their marine activity timeline.
The archaeology archive It holds the archive (memory) of the archaeology that found within the cliff. The archive will suggest the precious memory of human on the Earth since the early geological period. It is held up with a fully mechanical shelving system that connected from the excavation platform using conveyor system. It is also the final destination of the whole docking process, suggesting a timeless atmosphere with the capability to increase in capacity over the years; constructed by a precast technique using the raw material that obtained from the site - the limestone.
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The archaeology archive 1 Research
office 2 Public exit 3 Archive rooms 4 Public view into archive 5 Research office 6 Receiving station 7 Packaging station 8 Control room
The archaeology archive Mechanical shelving system
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The archive process 1 Excavation 2 Returning 3 Docking 4 Delivering 5 Receiving 6 Research 7 Packaging 8 Storing
The shelving of archive
Through the Spaces Public
Private
Public & Private
The main entrance/ Multipurpose outdoor space
Visitor information centre (ground floor)
Public link bridge connecting to cafe at visitor information centre (first floor)/ Deployable private bridge underneath
Exhibition hall & Lighthouse tower
Lighthouse tower/ Public observatory platform & private crown mechanical structure zone
Exhibition hall
Public link bridge/ Deployable private bridge connecting to the excavation platform
Excavation platform with hanging structure, Deployable private link bridge & archaeology transporter
Public link bridge (first floor) connecting to the archive, parallel with the archaeology transporter/ Archive private corridor entrance (ground floor)
Public entrance from the archive connecting to first floor corridor/ Private corridor from the entrance at the ground level
Archive private main entrance
Archive entrance floor (Meeting place, archive rooms, wc, stairs access to first floor)
Archive working area/ Public viewing platform into archive
Archive receiving, research and packaging area
Archive mechanical shelf unit
Temporarily landscape promenade
Journey from the Past to Future
Sign of Time
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Movements in a day
Maglev track (Mark on steel from building pressure to the track)
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Lighthouse crown (Flowering of crown)
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Archive shelves (Process of filling up)
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The Archive (Aging of material, increase in volume)
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The building is not a constant; it moves, it reacts, it interacts with time and nature.
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Hunstanton life: The future is the remembrance of the past