Located in Diablo Canyon, California, this project investigates the ecological effects of the process of decommissioning the last nuclear power plant in California. It also explores how architecture can provide a framework for experiencing these disturbances in the landscape.

When the Diablo Canyon Power Plant was commissioned in 1985, the thermal discharge of its cooling system caused a shift in natural habitats along the Pacific Coast. The mechanical systems introduced for this process overlapped and intertwined with existing ecosystems to create a new novel landscape. Now, due to be proposed decommissioning of the power plant in 2025, the processes that need to be instigated for this decommissioning will alter the landscape further.

Acknowledging its role as part of a wider ecology, the proposed architecture becomes both a predator and prey, where it feeds off and feeds into the shifting ecological chain of the decommissioning process. Together, the ‘creatures’ exploit the disturbances in the landscape and manifest them allowing both human and 'more than human' ecologies to collide. The aim of the architecture is to make visible the changing conditions of the landscape and to make a beautiful, bucolic ruin of the defunct nuclear power plant