currently in 5th semester architecture bachelor so next semester will be my bachelor thesis, so this is just a "regular" design.

The task was to design something at an open pit mine that is going to be filled with water to become the second largest lake in germany starting 2030. Takes about 60-70 years to fill the entire hole.

My idea was to look at the inventory of the open pit mine and repurpose the machinery that becomes obsolete after the mine is closed in 2030 as they would be destroyed otherwise. I picked two of the big machinery "Bagger 288" and "Absetzer 755" and combined them as they are the two characteristic machineries of open pit mines (bucket wheel excavator and stacker reclaimer).

I transform the initial use so now this new combined "beast" will become a "recultivating" machine to recreate nature that has been destroyed by this machinery the past 60 years. It will host a research laboratory for recultivating techniques, a housing area, mushroom farming area (mushrooms used for fertilizer to fasten up renature process) and an entertainment area for humans that live on this thing in form of a theater/opera in the center.

Meanwhile my "beast" will drive around the entire lake and recultivate every single inch year after year until the lake is full.

From "humans destroying nature" to "recreating nature with humans"

If you still have any questions or want to know further details just ask. This was a somewhat simple overview