Fragments of Tomorrow
Architecture: BArch
Charlie Hall
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Atelier 01: Cabinet of Curiosities
Project
The project assumes climate collapse not as a distant threat but as a condition of the present. The scheme creates a journey of revelation and contrast through these ‘fragments’, immersing users in an experiential confrontation with environmental crisis. The museum serves secondarily as a climate observatory where meteorologists can analyse and distribute recorded data to the public through spatial installations. The museum also transforms under pressure with the disaster relief exhibition transforming into a viable refuge centre, reinstating the function of the castle as a fortification for Newark's community. The observer becomes the subject and refuge is created for those displaced by the very forces the project sought to document.
Project
The proposal seeks to elicit solastalgia, a condition where users mourn for a former environment, not as a result of physical displacement but through witnessing a place dissolve under environmental stress. Patterns of climatic damage are formalised: cantilevered walkways piercing the castle wall appear as wind-borne debris, the Solar Exhibition hall ruptures under exposure to the sun while the towers appear eroded, a product of strengthening prevailing winds. Concrete is cast as negative, remembering forms that no longer exist. Between collapse, circulation routes that follow storm tracks across the site frame views of the untouched countryside in Newark, reenforcing present conditions as transient and fleeting.
