Krisana Wong
About
As a spatial practitioner, Krisana’s interest lies in the peculiar and the highly convivial: intimate space making that challenges the status quo, and that is always material driven. Her work often engages with material in a forensic manner, with previous projects exploring the unconventional – such as latex, and graded metalwork currently used exclusively in chemical engineering. Through engaging with materials not typically used by Architects when space making, Krisana attempts to challenge the orthodox and heteronormative standards that typically define the spaces we inhabit, with the intent of creating new experiences of space which are rich and meaningful to the user.
Prior to joining the RCA, Krisana has gained two years of professional experience working across the built environment, at a variety of scales. This includes her time working within the Soho House design team, where Krisana was involved in the design and fabrication of bespoke furniture and highly considered joinery.
A Dose of Fowl — 0.23mg of antibiotics per bite
Like the river, connected with different tributaries, the gut is a central hub that integrates signal from various systems in our body. The River Wye is currently suffering from pollution stemming from excessive poultry farming and sewage overflow, contributing to the emergence of superbugs — antibiotic-resistant bacteria, jeopardising the well-being of both human and non-human. A Dose of Fowl aims to intervene this phenomenon through celebrating the act of fermentation, a way of healing, healing to our guts, healing to our waterways. Which includes architectural intervention with ritualistic fermentation practices through studying 8 different types of ferments, designed to address public health concerns related to our waterways.
Our guts are not merely responsible for digestion, it affects what toxins or nutrients we absorb, it affects our immune system, metabolism, our central nervous system, how our hormones travel and mental wellbeing.
Within the confines of a disused limestone quarry on the banks of the River Wye: a space of extraction 75 metres deep and 200 metres wide, a redundant void piercing an idyllic landscape, which is officially designated as an area of outstanding beauty. A Dose of Fowl manifests as a spatial proposition: an architecture comparable to that of a digestive system, intending to create a series of enclosures or spatial organs – ‘digestors’ which break down the toxicity of the river, encouraging growth, and governing the long and extensive process of healing required for the landscape, human, and non-human wetland inhabitants. The spatial digestor is a space for healing: a cultural setting that diverts us from our reliance on antibiotics, and fosters a culture of consuming probiotic-rich food. A space which promotes digestive health and creates a setting from which, to protest the polluting of the river.
Like a jar or container used to control and encourage fermentation, the isolating quality of the quarry is used as a micro-climate within which the architecture and spatial organs can operate. The fermenting spatial digestor located within the quarry functions through three distinct organs — ‘kidney’ diverts and purifies river water using pine tree branches to filter out superbugs, purified water is then channeled to the fermentation vessels; ‘intestine’ occupies the quarry’s middle layers, this area houses tanks and jars for fermenting foods, providing transparency to the fermentation process, and ‘throat’ refers to the bottom centre of the quarry, a space encouraging convivial acts for over 100 people.
Simultaneously phasing out intensive poultry farming, exploring dietary alternatives — through spatial organs designed for purification, fermentation, and conviviality, we rethink our choices to food and carry out a slow yet hollistic process to healing.
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