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ARCH 502A: LARGE MODELS AND DRAWINGS

Instructor: Jimenez Lai

THE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH AND SUN

“The Children of the Earth and Sun” is a speculative, regenerative farming community that critiques contemporary sustainability efforts through the lens of ritual and devotion. Set in fire-scarred Paradise, CA, the project reinforces bureaucratic sustainability goals within a hyper disciplined system rooted in closed-loop cycles of food, energy, and governance. Architecture becomes shelter, ceremony, infrastructure, and instrument. Each building, a “child”, maintains a sacred stewardship – harvest, worship, lumber, power, water, cooking, and security – offering a serious and sincere blueprint for a self-sufficient future.