Located in Riva San Vitale, Ticino, Switzerland, The Archive of Etymology is a complex of follies constructed from infrastructural materials observed throughout the various cantons of Switzerland.
The complex centralizes around a small library containing books that trace the development of language within the Swiss Confederation.
The material and formal choices of the project set up a framework that examines the connections between the proposal and surrounding (local, regional, and global) economic and cultural contexts while simultaneously leveraging the distinct phenomenological characteristics of infrastructural materials (flag poles, corrugated steel ground retention system, and steel grating) with a false naiveté about their typical use in order to produce novel scenarios.