Post-Extractive Architecture

DnA_ Design and Architecture, No Density, OBEL Award, Ricardo Devesa, Talk, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms.

Adaptive reuse, Architecture, Architecture & Nature, Architecture&climate, China, Geographies of extraction, Inhabiting Landscape, Landscape, Natural materials, Stereotomy, Stone, talk, Territory.

Interview by Ricardo Devesa.
Filmed by Emilie Koefoed.
Edited by Marta Bugés.
Film editing by Evgeniya Barashkova.

Xu Tiantian speaks to urbanNext in the context of the Obel Award Talks at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 in Copenhagen. Her work inhabiting abandoned quarries with adaptive re-use strategies is not only giving an architectural response to post-extractive landscapes, but is also contributing to the mitigation of climate change.