It has become impossible to separate the terms of nature and culture. We live in an environment that now consists of natural and artificial materials and shows in different processes of interaction. In doing so, it is no longer possible to recognize the difference between synthetic and organic and therefore define them.
So if the plastic is present in every place, every ecosystem on our earth at all times, does it become part of nature?
Kamilo deals with a place that lives of natural processes and phenomena but has been flooded with a new, synthetic resource for years – plastic. The project kamilo takes on the problem of plastic and turns it into something positive to build with. All the washed-up garbage should be reused. With the local resources, there should arise a slowly growing artificial landscape made by a process according to local parameters. The resources for the structures are plastic, sand, volcanic ashes and saltwater. The big plastic parts are sorted out, shredded and washed. The fine parts that cannot be separated are made into a type of fuel by thermoanalysis. This process does not emit harmful substances thanks to new technologies. The sand, the volcanic ashes and the saltwater are processed into ash cement which is used for foundations.
For this process, 5 workers are necessary.
The drone, the gatherer, the helper, the spider and the human.
The drones do the scanning of the environment for obstacles such as trees, roads, soil condition, flood zones, shaded places and high densities of resources and send it to the system.
The gatherer leaves to collect small plastic parts and volcanic ashes. The human takes care of the big plastic parts.
The helper digs according to parameters of soil condition, slope and shaded places. This creates a pattern of foundations towards the water. The foundation is filled by the drone with ash cement according to the available resources.
The foundations then are passed on to the system. As soon as enough plastic is available in one colour, the drone starts and is guided by the wind to a foundation. It begins printing a colour ring.
Over time, a colourful landscape with different structures is created: with roofs, pools and pillars.
The structures are places without determined, but suggested functions. The printed colour rings act as time rings. Every colour indicates a moment of the process and is saved with a date in the system.