Rosia Montana,
Transylvania, Romania
Transylvania, Romania
FOREVER AUR - Sustainable Mining to Subsistence Farming_2015
‘FOREVER AUR’ by HaoWen Lin and Shreya Save, puts forth a new approach towards negotiating with waste materials that are inevitable in the process of gold mining.
In an attempt to fight the economic crisis, Europe doubled down on gold mining to generate employment and raised general aspirations to wealth. ‘Rosia Montana’ sits on a 300 ton deposit of this resource, fighting against a Canadian company that is trying to extricate it. This gives rise to a socio-political conflict among the two stakeholders - i.e. the industry vs the inhabitants. Shutting down of mines, once the gold is brought to surface, leaves behind a social and environmental void for generations to come - the tailing and a ghost town.
This project attempts to expand on how the better management of the by-products of mining activity can become an enabling force to re-envision the post-mining landscape as a co-mining platform to generate alternative economies. Furthermore this project seeks to encourage an ideology of ‘Subsistence Farming’ that is subconsciously permeated into the lifestyle of the locals of Romania and eventually create the appropriate landscape that pushes towards agrarianism.
︎ More Info - Publications:
1. Read Full Thesis on Issuu
2. AA Yearbook 2016, p262-267
3. AA Yearbook 2017, p129-130
4. AA Landscape Urbanism Brochure 2019, p17
5. Landscape as Territory by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Actar Publishers
1. Read Full Thesis on Issuu
2. AA Yearbook 2016, p262-267
3. AA Yearbook 2017, p129-130
4. AA Landscape Urbanism Brochure 2019, p17
5. Landscape as Territory by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Actar Publishers