The Earth Sea Pavilion sits in the courtyard like a tempietto, or an inhabitable piece of turf, its layers composed as an imaginary stratification of the city’s materials. As it was being built, or rather, filled, soils foreign to one another became neighbors, and seeds, both the ones selected, mixed in the strata, and those already present in the grounds, were exposed to light and water, and began to germinate. The cockles within the metallic skin were alive around forty-thousand years ago, buried deep beneath the sand of the North Sea, while the oysters and mussels above them were eaten a few weeks back, and collected at the market.
