AnthropoScene
Seoul, Korea
Landscape Urbanist Alban Mannisi
Landscape & Urban Regeneration
Postulate
The 21st century allows a measure of the man’s ability to control its environment.
Anthropocene :
“the geological chronological term that marks the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems”, and personifies the components of our contemporary urban civilizations.
Our epoch retains traces that allow us a critical and promising insight into the earth modelled by humans.
Henceforth, the energy harnessed by globalization represented by these five oil tanks at the heart of a forest crater on the outskirts of Seoul are Symbols:large Scenes from which people will observe our recent history.Man changes his environment which, in turn, changes him; the Human Being – Anthropo – provides Scenes for man and environment to both enrich one another.
As part of the constant evolution, the different scenes are ecologically flowing in the transition of Seoul city and its society: mobile in the mobility.
Because preservation frequently freezes sites at some moment in time, that arguably never really existed, reconnecting elements of our environment makes time visible.
And as durable buildings are in essence “Intelligent Ruins”, the oil tanks are deployed as a Cultural Attraction.
- Landscape Urbanism
- Urban Regeneration