Fourth Coast

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Facing head on what our current trajectory of agricultural fallout is - using hyperbolized architecture to contextualize what we are left with and how to adapt.

Urban consumption poses a risk to agrarian systems and landscapes, threatening the biotic and abiotic ecologies of Earth. This problem is especially significant in our current agricultural mechanization, where topsoil is being drained of nutrients, reducing its potential as a host for production. At this same scale, the speed and volume of soil displacement / dilution increases - eroding into seemingly unretrievable territory. Agricultural decline is accelerating, and current land management practices will contribute to increase the imposed risk and detrimental effects on Earth's nutrient-rich topsoil deposits. Through exposing systems of material exchange, Fourth Coast begins to spatialize the previously masked forces behind urbanization.