Quarry_Description — Trower Falvo Architects

Quarry

Research
2020

Model Photography
Garry Smith

When a body moves, the spatial conditions that surround it are repositioned around its centre. The Earth is the same, it is constantly displacing and realigning itself through geologic events to points of equilibrium, resulting in the formation of the ground plane.

The record of these transformations is found in the strata of rock, stretching underneath the ground plane. However, humans have now become their own geologic force, meaning human processes move the same, if not more, geologic material than non-human processes.

As the demand for natural resources grows, extraction and exploration of the Earth to find new plots of resources multiply, as do the traces these explorations leave on the ground. Human processes, including land clearing, have irreversibly changed the composition of the Earth.

They leave traces of our society and become the legacy humans leave embedded into the strata that archives our history.

Quarry investigates this.