Ravena Quarry Monument Park — Anna Nanju Kim Works

RAVENA QUARRY
NATIONAL MONUMENT

Exploring Anthropocenic New Geology / Year 2023 Spring / Columbia GSAPP Advanced Studio IV / Type - Sanctuaries Studio / Location - Ravena Village, NY / Instructor - Nahyun Hwang / Individual Work

This project started with a desire to contest the notion of Hudson Valley as the perfect nature, a getaway retreat, and question the idea of what wilderness really is. What does it really mean when we say “natural” landscape after the extensive history of human intervention? Instead of thinking of quarries as destroyed land, quarries represent production of new sublime and new unique ecologies. The investigation started in Ravena Village. The Ravena quarry, the chosen site, is one of many quarries in the hudson valley, is in fact the last active cement quarry site in New York State by the end of this year, as Glens Falls Quarry will be closing. This quarry produced materials for the World Trade Center Memorial Project and the new Giants Stadium.

Map Design_Ravena Quarry National Monument Park

Section_Ravena Quarry

Site Plan_Social Tensions and Dynamics between the Ravena Quarry and the Local Community

Photo Collage_Exploitation History of Hudson River Valley

Research Drawing_Abandoned Quarry as Start of Ecological Succession Cycle

Research Drawing_Global Extraction of Quarries: A History of Cement Companies’ Neo-Colonism

Research Drawing_Different Conditions of Quarries in the HRV

Typology Studies of Ravena Quarry Landscapes + Park Region Design

Perspective_Photo Collage

Photo_Site Visit

Final Proposal_Ravena Quarry National Monument Map

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