THE POLICY-SCAPE
Crafting Future Heritage within a Self-Replicating Landscape
M.Arch 2 Thesis
Site: Lake District National Park, England
This thesis explores the conditions of authenticity and the nature of rural and urban artefacts as products of spatial ordering and preservation through timeless heritage within the Lake District National Park.
The abundance of the Lake Districts vernacular buildings, objects and artefacts support a complex synthesised relationship between social-economic values and shifting perceptions around protecting and preserving future heritage. Current legislative framework, codes and policies seek to control and restrict emerging technologies, material and future techniques of preservation through mitigation and a sense of false romanticism.
Current Policies describe an outdated and post-industrialised landscape through the exploitation of natural resources, contestation of land ownership, detachment of services and environmentally damaging artificial materials. The unique vernacular style of the Lake District is the embodiment of localised materials including stone, timber, slate and clay. Over time, these traditions have shaped and fossilised an accumulation of architectural styles and transitional periods, each now identified within their singular and unique physical typologies which remain strangely timeless.
This thesis proposes both a permeable and transitory approach to the issues surrounding people, place and function within the National Park. The accumulation of localised materials and the integration of a three-tiered POLICY-scape through the creation of the Deep, Medial and Outer Lake District, seeks to use policy as a controlled method through the slow adaptation and forming of new heritage. Each Policy framework provides either stringent or lenient methods within the Lake District either through the removal and unpacking of artificial form and function or the creation and packing of emerging bio-materials and future heritage into the Deep Lake District.
Over time, the territories of the POLICY-scape will expand and grow within the existing biotic landscape, through the use of a self-replicating Eco-Tone, combining both new emerging materials and techniques to protect, prepare and ready the Lake District from the impending human and natural controversies beyond the 21st century.
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