Nezar Alkujok
Club Palestino, the vessel in section above: the vessel in cutaway, some one hundred and twenty metres from bow to stern. Six retractable fins line each flank, drawing water for ballast and lifting clear when the hull takes to the air. Its skin is woven keffiyeh, the black-and-white weave produced at the Hirbawi mill in Hebron, and beneath the canopy runs a lining of gauze. The hold is stacked in tiers, the largest architectural fragments cabled to the structural frame at several points, the smaller crates racked on sliding runners along the length of the deck. Cranes rise fore and aft to lower cargo over the side, while four freight elevators and a central escalator carry the crew of archivists between floors. Around the whole perimeter a lattice of drones keeps station, recording the passage and turning the instrument that watches Gaza’s sky into one that testifies on its behalf.
left: cross section. The cranes, freight elevators, escalator, ballast and fin mechanisms all draw their power from sun and wind, collected across the vessel’s own surfaces and stored below, so that it operates without fuel and without a berth at which to refuel. It is worked otherwise by its crew, read and adjusted by hand.
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