Drifting Meridian

To construct an archive of the Earth’s magnetic field for the first time in human history, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the 21st century proposed an architectural instrument that etches the geomagnetic variations on the exterior skin of the house. In the millennium cycle of expeditions, the instrumental house sediments a repository of observation data as archaeological artefacts, leaving behind sites of scientific monoliths. The film is set within a future where current languages are no longer spoken, but where math, astronomy, and physics would have remained and even advanced. A group of future scientists start to investigate the metallic fragments around the earth that seem to point toward an architectural device of recording terrestrial events. From forensically examining the layered inscriptions to digitally creating the architectural protype, a chronicle of geological timescale emerged.