Our climates are increasingly fragile and ever-changing. In the Anthropocene, human’s effect on the landscape is increasing exponentially. Yet governments remain fractured, divided and unwilling to form a collective, unified, and substantial response to the climate emergency. The Ministry is a secluded retreat for global leaders and intends to invoke an emotional call for action instead, one where experience, information, and collective education inform and contribute to policy. The issue lies not in a lack of understanding but rather a lack of will of those in charge.

Much like our own environment, the building is not static and fixed in time but a decade-long performance, the continuation of which is symbolic of our failures to solve the ever-growing climate emergency. With time, the building decays and moves across the landscape. The project becomes an investigative narrative of its landscapes.

The project's legacy is to contribute to a collective urban memory, a call for greater appreciation of our fragile, ever-changing landscapes from the top levels of government, generations after its physical traces are gone. A call to action if already not too late.