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The large scale energy facility powers an artificial in-land tide, used to exploit legal loopholes, and create a cooperative municipality across a mountainous borderland terrain.
The artificial tide erodes down the site until the delineation between natural land and built form are lost, while the soil is bleached red from the abundance of tidal salt, transferring the map onto the very land it represents.
The Tarn revels in indeterminate questions of architecture’s alignment with landscape, recursively querying the limitations of the term ‘natural’ across multiple scales of design