Permanence has been sought throughout humanity, but how can we understand the consequences incurred by this status often given to architecture?

Manifested in the proposal for the golden spike of this new geological age, undeniably impacted by human activity. The Sicilian site has been occupied and adapted by cultures for centuries, located on the fringe of the island’s capital and its largest landfill, perched atop the surrounding hills. The proposal serves as an archive to both store and act as proxy records that interact with the worsening floods, to measure our evolving landscape and climate.

The building is organised chronologically to engage with past present and future climate events and reflects the haphazard Sicilian tiled roof typologies of the city below in its form. Apparatus have been designed to naturally scar, stain and erode the building, leaving indissoluble records to warn future civilisations of our failings to our environment.