Abyss Junction

The project seeks to reacquaint one with the increasingly alienating peripheral landscape while critically examining its function and meaning. Within Eisenerz, the project disrupts amnesia and the continuum between industry and war; it also questions the current unchallenged shift from one mono discipline to another. It creates a pause among routines across diverse walks of life, prompting reflection on the meaning and impact of one’s labour. Serving as a point of departure and a space for freedom and plurality, it offers a moment of exploration before one returns to their routine.

The Abyss Junction forms a constellation of spaces hosting programmes for a reading of the periphery beyond its face value. The structure of the building orients glaze toward the Eisenerz Industrial past and the current productive forest. Eisenerz was developed for mining; the town gained its significance under Reichwerke Herman Goering. This is often overlooked in Eisenerz's development of the tourism sector. The building's form is derived from the vistas on the site, problematising the amnesia and the continuum of industries and war. And Eisenerz shifts from one industrial dependency to another. They also highlight how the museumification of Eisenerz not only under-minds the absolute evil but, more importantly, neglects the acknowledgement of the banal evil of labouring without critical thought on the overall system. The building also draws attention toward the monoculture of spruce, a product of the industrialised timber production process. Where the standardisation has led to the reduction of diversity of forest and labour alienation; The project explored building techniques that does not seek to use technology for labour abstraction, the transfer of knowledge is supported by the AR construction process. It bridges digital manufacturing with human intuition. At the regional scale, they respond to the current effort to diversify the alpine slope with a polyculture system that blends soft and hard wood. The Abyss Junction challenges the narratives of Eisenerz by recontextualising its industrial and natural landscapes, encouraging critical engagement with its past and present. By disrupting the continuum between industry, war, and shifting modes of labour, the project creates a space for reflection, dialogue, and an alternative reading of the periphery.