suspended harvest
monument to ecological vulnerabilityA seed vault is an abstraction of nature,
a break in the rhythms of biological succession.
Rather than becoming a plant,
a seed’s suspension in time and space
instead renders it as data storage.
a break in the rhythms of biological succession.
Rather than becoming a plant,
a seed’s suspension in time and space
instead renders it as data storage.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4ce0cc64fddc34339b1172893dd8954206659d6720afe199b33311c19850cfb/seed-container-section-model.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27ddecc74b428a64b92b95cc608b694553ca34c972556db00ab57831fb23c23e/Seed-Vault-Section.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5c633e32ac4f7af8714198ce33945ec4af180715e6652a9b0262949474482e2/seed-vault-plan-01.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e5c1f89db0b1901fa435022a021e08e6aca1f599360de9c1722d733a1bf5975/seedV_int-section-obl-model-crop-01.jpg)
Yale School of Architecture, fall 2017
critic: David Moon