THE BOXES

HM of Archi-Hack: Gas Station

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Archi-Hack: Gas Station

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THE BOXES

Team

Name: KYUTAE HAN

Instagram: kue_0421

Nationality: South Korea

Institution / Company: Dongeui Univ.

Name: MINJUN KIM

Instagram: minjun_archive

Nationality: South Korea

Institution / Company: Dongseo Univ.

Gas stations settle everywhere toward the cars and roads are stretching out. Whether in a metropolis like New York, a desert like Nevada, or deep in the mountains. Cars with different license plates pass through gas stations as transitional spaces before heading to their next destination.

Boxes departing from different places and heading toward their destinations arrive at logistics hubs. Within the mechanical flow, the dynamic movement of these boxes, each following a different path, may resemble the operation of a gas station.

So, what if, in an era where fuel is no longer needed, gas stations were transformed into logistics hubs?

They could follow the flow of regional exchanges, becoming spaces that might carry various stories. These hubs could serve as intermediate points connecting distant places or act as crucial supply centers for small towns and rural areas lacking logistics infrastructure.

Jury Comments

– The Boxes demonstrates a keen understanding of the infrastructural logic of gas stations, ingeniously repurposing them into a fulfillment center. The project joyfully—and perhaps, to some extent, even ironically—reveals the complex, often invisible mechanisms of contemporary logistics through a playful use of color and simple representation. It critically acknowledges the gas station’s historical role as a backbone of twentieth-century mobility infrastructure and provocatively replaces it with an infrastructure that sustains a future of immobility—one where everything is delivered to you. | Pablo Castillo Luna