Jessica Iozzo, "Industrial Detritus and Deep Time"
Can architecture incite moments of ecological grief and intensify the act of observing rewilding over longer remediation timescales, deepening the connections between parks, recreation, and disturbed landscapes? Rejecting the fiction that contaminated landscapes can return to a 'pristine' Nature, intensifying the synchronicity between industrial, ecological, and social time reveals a new space for didactic recreation in the city.
At the confluence of the Rouge and Detroit Rivers sits Zug Island, a toxic remnant of 120 years of industrial activity. New infrastructure occupying the island's edge identifies Zug as a specimen in the city for exploration and reconciliation with by the consumer-environmentalist citizen.
Program: Master of Architecture
Advisor: Laura Miller