Redisplaced Cachés
The role of storage in architecture is a recurring theme that has evolved from cyclical agrarian practices of preservation, its necessary linear sequence in industrialization, to post-Fordist economies with centers of flexible capital. The emergence of storage facilities, as an urban typology, are indicative of a complex but adaptive global network of supply chains at work. At the same time, they are inextricably linked to fulfill suburbia’s consumption demands and prepare their over accumulation of goods consumed. Technologies of robotic automation, climate control, refrigeration, and data management have significantly facilitated this tightly controlled typology in shaping the landscape of logistics.
The role of storage in architecture is a recurring theme that has evolved from cyclical agrarian practices of preservation, its necessary linear sequence in industrialization, to post-Fordist economies with centers of flexible capital. The emergence of storage facilities, as an urban typology, are indicative of a complex but adaptive global network of supply chains at work. At the same time, they are inextricably linked to fulfill suburbia’s consumption demands and prepare their over accumulation of goods consumed. Technologies of robotic automation, climate control, refrigeration, and data management have significantly facilitated this tightly controlled typology in shaping the landscape of logistics.
Theorists such as Easterling, Delanda, and Berger imply various socio-political roles that storage facilities play in the macro spatial configurations of urbanism. However, more personal issues such as public interaction, place, domesticity, and commodification of the body are not clarified in this architectural discourse. At the same time, wider discourse issues are also not fully implicated when storage is simply classified as an urban typology when other valid definitions such as site, non-place or mental construct enter the discussion. This thesis will then start a more comprehensive analysis and speculation over the role of storage facilities in our daily lives and beyond.
The thesis will first take an empirical approach that will utilize quantitative and visual-spatial methods for research. Photographic documentary will also be archived and curated. Research from this analysis will then be projected into a speculative narrative to in order explore possible scenarios or implications that are worth investigating for the thesis.
The artifacts to be produced throughout this thesis process are GIS spatial analysis mappings, an evolving socio-political entity web, archival and curation of images, and a weekly series of journal entries.
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