The Salt Giant sleeps beneath the Mediterranean Sea basin for 5. 5 million years, yet little evidence is gathered of its existence by the few people who remain on the coasts of the basin. While the humans of the coast manage to maintain a healthy relationship with the Salt Giant deposit at the bottom of the sea floor, they struggle to share their culture of salt along with its slow practices of harvesting across geographies of the Earth. I choose to enable this culture of Salt through my work and potential conversation with koozArch.

The Salt Giant is harvested and consumed as it leaves the bedrock to reach our salt sensitive taste buds. How does this geologic giant structure enter the lives of those who chose to cultivate it? How does the Salt Giant become an architectural lens to those who wish to learn from its capacities when designing better futures? As Salt provides the architect with a spectrum of preservative and destructive material properties, this work invites current design practices to think across intervals of time that reflect the capacities of a mineral as its Giant deposits get harvested.

School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Advisor: Cristina Parreno Alonso
Thesis Readers: Ana Miljacki, Brandon Clifford