Bartlett | PG Unit 11

Ana-Maria Cazan - Ecologies of Repair

Y5 | 2025-2026

Exploring how architecture might shift from the production of objects towards the
cultivation of conditions for ecological recovery, the project proposes an Environmental Life-Support System for the long-term regeneration of post-industrial landscapes. Set within the former ThyssenKrupp steelworks in Turin, Italy, it responds to contaminated soils, fragmented habitats, and abandoned infrastructures through a series of devices that support phytoremediation, water filtration, habitat creation, cultivation, monitoring, and environmental stewardship.

These speculative instruments are subsequently translated into the Landscape Care Laboratory, an architectural framework that brings together research, cultivation, monitoring, education, and field operations. Rather than prescribing a fixed end-state, the project understands restoration as an ongoing temporal process, positioning architecture as a facilitator of care, adaptation, and long-term ecological recovery.

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