Columbia GSAPP's New "Extraction Lab" Will Launch in Black Rock Desert

Columbia GSAPP’s New “Extraction Lab” Will Launch in Black Rock Desert

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Columbia GSAPP’s Extraction Lab, led by Christoph Kumpusch, is a five year-long project beginning in August of this year with a student workshop at the 2017 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. “With the desert as a canvas, and Burning Man as a context,” the project will deploy a roof structure into the heart of the gathering in order to—among other goals—”extract what is most absent in the landscape: water.” In this episode of GSAPP Conversations, Kumpusch outlines just what the new laboratory has planned.




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Plan: 2017 Burning Man Festival installation. Image © GSAPP Conversations

Plan: 2017 Burning Man Festival installation. Image © GSAPP Conversations


Model of the installation at 2017 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, NV. Image © GSAPP Conversations

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