A

AIA CES Credits

AV Office

Abstract Publication

Academic Affairs

Academic Calendar, Columbia University

Academic Calendar, GSAPP

Admissions Office

Advanced Standing Waiver Form

Alumni Board

Alumni Office

Architecture Studio Lottery

Assistantships

Avery Library

Avery Review

Avery Shorts

S

STEM Designation

Satisfactory Academic Progress

Scholarships

Skill Trails

Student Affairs

Student Awards

Student Conduct

Student Council (All Programs)

Student Financial Services

Student Health Services at Columbia

Student Organization Handbook

Student Organizations

Student Services Center

Student Services Online (SSOL)

Student Work Online

Studio Culture Policy

Studio Procedures

Summer Workshops

Support GSAPP

Close
This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University's usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the Columbia University Website Cookie Notice Group 6

Laminated Earth

Laminated Earth reconciles architectural representations of housing while drawing from land art practices of raw soils and synthetic matter. A careful look reveals that the golden colors are derived from raw earth, and the glitter – plain nylon. Laminated Earth is both the action and the outcome, the process and the object. It mediates between the personal and collective homes while engaging in the obsessive preservation of raw soils as an increasingly eliminated resource.


When I laminate earth, I protect it.
I preserve it.
Laminated, it can last forever.
It can capture water and shape.
It is cultured, designed, and clean.

When I laminate earth, I destroy it.
I consume it.
Laminated, it can no longer bear fruits.
It can no longer absorb and infiltrate.
It is shiny, tough, and barren.

The project has been exhibited as a series of site-specific installations that mediate between the personal and collective homes while immersing with raw soil materials that are laminated with synthetic plastics. At a broader level, the exhibition contemplates on the preciousness of untreated soil as a commodity that is being moved and shuffled around, built upon, plasticized, laminated, and slowly - eliminated. Created by artist and architect Sharon Yavo-Ayalon and curated by Professor Lola Ben-Alon.