Project Topic: Crackers to Cosmos: An Orbital Snack

This mini zine playfully juxtaposes the historic industrial era represented by the Oregon Cracker Company Building with the cutting-edge space-age ambitions of SpaceX's Starlink satellite launches. It explores the idea of human progress through two seemingly unrelated artifacts: a 19th-century food processing plant and 21st-century space technology. Each page contrasts the tactile, grounded world of bricks and crackers with the intangible, high-tech network of satellites in orbit, creating a slightly odd narrative about how industry and exploration shape our environments. The project emerged from the intersection of architectural history and rapid modern technological advancement, emphasizing a quirky dialogue between grounded heritage and skyward dreams.

Medium

mini zine

Date

Dec. 13, 2025, 5:42 p.m.