Newness is important. It distinguishes a relationship between loss and opportunity. The world, here, on the lava flow is fundamentally different from its past. We stare, transfixed to this rebirth of material forging into raw earth, maybe because we cannot, ourselves, begin again. Architecture, here, cannot be permanently static. The design must be responsible for its own survival.

 

This house reflects on opportunities in newness. Removable utility cores, like seeds, embed themselves into a vernacular of local materials and the house grows. When disaster comes, the seeds flee. Materials derived from the site are left, returning to the land which it came. The seed can then germinate a new architecture rooted in the new altered site. More on this in the video descriptions.

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