Between the boundary of the forest and the mine, a self-writing architecture etches inhabitation into the earth, its mechanical arm indexing erasure and composing a living map of dissent.

Set within the contested landscape of the Hambach Forest, this project investigates inhabiting this edge condition. The mine consumes terrain daily, erasing ecologies and histories. Protestors inhabit the forest edge, resisting the territorial violence of RWE’s industrial machinery. Against this backdrop, architecture becomes both witness and participant: tracing, recording, and amplifying the protest.

Its mechanical arm draws continuously, creating a live archive of environmental damage and activist resistance. The pantograph's trajectory shapes the protestors' pods, like a building that writes itself. After the protest ends, the structure remains as a field station and observatory documenting soil regeneration and reforestation. As the forest reclaims the scarred edge, the architecture becomes a monument of memory and a tool of healing. This is not a fixed building, but a temporal construct that is part machinery, part archive, attuned to the shifting horizon between extraction and renewal.