Anomalies in Strata

• Main Author: Hartmann Gyllenhammar, Anna
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: KTH, Arkitektur 2022
• Subjects: longevity; subsurface; erosion; landrise; Jönköping; Vättern; Architecture; Arkitektur; Greenland; Rosenlund
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316488

We are leaving traces on the surface of earth, and have been doing so, for a long time. However, for the last 300 years or so, we seem not only to be leaving traces, but objects foreign to our system on an abnormal scale. Traces that are not obvious to the eye, but hidden behind the obviousness of the present. They can be found in the air, in the water, in the rings of the trees or in the glaciers of Greenland. What will be left after us? In a search of time and traces, to come closer to an understanding of how time passes, I have looked into man made objects. Objects, that have been constructed with time written differently into their structures. These ideas have been implemented in a geographical focal point in the area of Rosenlund sand banks, by lake Vättern, Sweden. From an architect’s point of view I have tried to understand the present that we are now dealing with, the Anthropocene, its implications and the impact of what we create as humans. This, by reconnecting a past and a future to the present through speculation, and by letting the ground play a major part as a mute, inverted infinity with all its layers bearing witness of a past that once laid super strata.