Re-Peat the Ground aims to realise the narrative of expanding architecture as a support structure, seeking to remind people paying more attention to the current ecology that damaged by human intervention through improving surrounded environment and shifting the site to an alternative future through the application of earth and bio-based materials.
Instead of design a traditional educational centre, such as a petroleum industry museum; the design itself should be a narrative that explores the fiction of post-petroleum architecture in relationship to time and ecology. In this narrative, the project is able to grow and decompose through time, might provide an opportunity for inhabitants to interact with local ecology – a possible fiction created by thinking, reflecting and picturing the world with and without petroleum.
The project is located in the west fence of the Mossmorran, divided into permanent and temporary parts. The permanent section consists the function of a visitor cafe for gather and communicating, a metal workshop that aims to reuse the existing metal from Mossmorran after its closure, and an exhibition hall that illustrates the history and future of petroleum industry. The temporary part consists mycelium workshop, which applies timber frame with mycelium panel. Since mycelium composite is currently temporary building material, the facade panels will be changed twice a year. While burying the composite under the, it could provide nutritions to the soil and help to restore the peatland. The whole workshop is planned to be moved every five years after treating the surrounded unhealthy peatland.
