meander erosion, usumacinta flood observatory first prize unlandscaped australia *The flood laboratory is a landscape corpse subject to the floods and variations of the Usumacinta River currents. The laboratory is a contemporary art and sculptures gallery in dry season and a flood shelter against flooding in the wet season. The landscape around the building becomes an experimental landscape where alternative crops and activities are explored in a more intense relationship with the river flux. Art installations could become an integral event of the flooded landscape.The laboratory program is transformed into a prototype that within the river currents is displaced, distributed, eroded, deposited and transformed to adapt to new relationships in the meander. The progression and organization of the program is constructed around a ramified structure that adapts to the meander geometries creating interstitial circulatory spaces for the internal flow of the museum.*This project was developed while working for OUTr @ RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, as a submission to the Arquine Magazine 2010 competition in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, afterwards presented to the Unlandscaped Australia Competition where it was granted the first prize. OUTr Research Laboratory Key Designers: Rosalea Monacella and Craig Douglas
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