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DWA & Co was a collective comprising three University of Westminster alumni (Alexandru Oltean, Jay Patel and myself) and current University of Westminster senior lecturer, Dr Victoria Watson formed in 2020.  

Our competition entry for ‘The Last Nuclear Memorial’, was situated on Kasputin Yar, a nuclear weapon and rocket development/testing site in Russia. The intervention reimagined the site as a nuclear waste storage facility, uilising the site’s geometry as a logic for entombing nuclear waste. This plane was interupted by a disk shaped object, presenting as something not of this world. Internally the space was mirrored to produce the effect of an infinite bubble chamber (a nuclear testing device). This hard contained exterior and seemingly infinite interior allude to the containment of peternatural nuclear power.