Abstract
In Floodplain (126), I investigated the paleo-flooding of Wiang Kum Kam in the Chao Phraya River Basin in Northern Thailand. I am interested in the diverse human activities that have existed on floodplains since antiquity. Made of bricks with the very silt and sediment, mud and earth of the floodplain below, this archeological site offers a deeper sense of time, of the dynamic cycles of river systems, and of the movement of civilizations. The brick itself is as much a temporal object as it is a spatial one, suspending the alluvial material that took thousands of years to break down, only to become subsumed once again by the river. I exhume these histories as a way of reconstructing the fleeting passages of natural phenomena and the built environment, with the dynamic anthropogenic changes of the Mekong River Delta today.
Highlights
My work explores the intersections between architecture, climate, and the embodied experience of place
In Floodplain (126), I investigated the paleo-flooding of Wiang Kum Kam in the Chao Phraya River basin in northern Thailand
Made of bricks with the very silt and sediment, mud and earth, of the floodplain below, this archaeological site offers a deeper sense of time, of the dynamic cycles of river systems, and of the movement of civilizations
Summary
My work explores the intersections between architecture, climate, and the embodied experience of place. I have examined notions of place through architectural reimaginings and overlapping temporalities in order to create a collision of the site’s past, present, and future.
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