The Terrestrial Field describes a defined area in the city: a three-dimensional habitat, a symbiotic unity of flora, fauna and civilisation. It includes the processes in the earth, the vegetation on its surface and the urban buildings above. By raising the buildings, the ground is kept free from intensive human use and becomes a zone of construction stop and deconstruction. The proposal takes on the defining issues of current urban development, climate change and land policy among them.

Terrestrial Fields in Urban Conditions is a self-initiated urban design project and a contribution to the debate on how cities can develop sustainably and justly. It was developed digitally and analogously. Alongside a theoretical discussion in essay form, large-format pencil drawings were produced. They cannot be reproduced, and in that they carry the argument of the project: the surface of the earth is finite, soil is not a reproducible commodity.

Follow up project: Terrestrial Test Fields