SELECTIONS FROM THE 2018 STUDENT AWARDS
BY ZACH MORTICE
“Stop Making Sense” resists applying easily explicable narratives to the open question of nuclear waste storage. Image courtesy Andrew Prindle, Student ASLA, and Kasia Keeley, Student Affiliate ASLA.
The winning entries of the 2018 ASLA Student Awards offer solutions for extreme sites and surreal conditions, completely appropriate to the times in which they were crafted. Here is a selection of six award-winning student projects that greet such days with humanity, nuance, and rigor.
Stop Making Sense: Spatializing the Hanford Site’s Nuclear Legacy
General Design: Honor Award
Composed of a pair of inscrutable concrete bunkers that are 1,000 feet long and dug 60 feet into the earth, ?Stop Making Sense? by Kasia Keeley, Student Affiliate ASLA, and Andrew Prindle, Student ASLA, pushes aside dominant narratives about how our nation treats and digests nuclear waste. ?We didn?t want to give people answers, and we didn?t want to force a perspective,? Keeley says. ?What we wanted to do was raise questions and incite curiosity.?
The Hanford nuclear site in Washington State, home to the largest amount of nuclear waste in the nation by volume, was the site of Manhattan Project research in the run-up to World War II.
Waste from the site is rounded up into Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility bunkers, spread across more than 100 acres. Keeley and Prindle (2017 graduates of the University of Washington MLA program) call for two more to be built, ...
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