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Within the European context the Hambach region manifests conflictual and dialectical relationships drawn upon a territory transformed from a constellation of rural villages interrupted by Markwalds - common forests - into a territorial machine shaped by the rhythms of the lignite extraction While ecologists movements occupy the remaining forests the voracious expansion of the mining operations has led to a continuous displacement of many villages - then rebuilt in generic and prefab modules at the minimum cost - while the abandoned towns have been re-populated by migrants A floating solar park an artificial yet idyllic lake a void kept as-it-is as a perverse touristic attraction as the coal phase-out is approaching in 2030 the many proposals for the redevelopment of the region can be read as a collection of ideologies - techno-fix nostalgic techno-romantic - which all fail to account for the multiple and diverse conditions of the site Instead the thesis investigates how to mediate a relationship with the very site of those conflicts the soil Beyond productive purposes and idyllic representations the soil is understood as a civic milieu - a laboratory for new forms of life The project addresses the aforementioned issues in the form of a constellation of interventions a multiplicity of narrations rather than ever-fixed and replicable solutions An occasion to reflect on and question the implicit power of architecture-as-media that traces relations and to wonder about the quality of these relations as a possible field of agency as an architect to affirm architecture as a tool in staging the multiplicity of the real Architecture Urbanism and Building Sciences Explorelab

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