Radiation Therapy

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​The images above are from the installation of Radiation Therapy, which was displayed for a month in Cal State Fullerton's Titan Student Union.  On opening night, there was a public viewing and open forum for questions and critique.

 

The focus of this independent study project was to use architecture to provide a solution to anthropogenic disasters.  The disasters, or "diseases," in question are nuclear waste and deforestation.  The design premise was based on these two diseases informing one another: Disease B is inserted into an organism with Disease A, because the organism can live with Disease B but will die from Disease A.  Radiation therapy is one example of this.  Radiation is inserted into a forest in order to protect it from further deforestation.

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Architectural precedence included Tschumi's Parc de la Villette and Russell Thomsen and Eric Kahn's Thinking the Future of Auschwitz.  This project aims to start a dialogue on how human lifestyles impact the environment and how disconnect from nature leads to solutions that further exploit it.

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