Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Zaneta Hong & Leighton Beaman
Humans, in an effort to make their environment more productive and accommodating have changed both the definition and composition of what is considered constructed ground. We have re-shaped it, re-constituted it, and re-organized it; by first using ourselves – our body – as a metric, and then others – animals, objects, machinery. Eventually, these transformations arrive to industry and consumer standards – universal metrics that subsume all differences and diversities. In a research seminar at Cornell University, students engaged material definitions of terra firma as its site and program of inquiry. Through material-based, material-scaled mappings and experimental prototypes, students re-defined what we commonly refer to as constructed grounds – designing material profiles for its subsurface, surface, and super-surface.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.InterMaterialEco.23.41
Volume Editors
Caryn Brause & Chris Flint Chatto
