Bio®ebo(O) T

Via Babble Fish- Here is something to look forward too.
"François Roche
Bio®ebo (O) T
“an architecture of moods”

State of advance (02) of the research which will be made public in January 2010, at the Laboratory - Paris.
In the continuation of Ive heard butt presented to the MAM in 2005, this second opus attempts more precisely to work out the computational, mathematical procedures and robotics with collaborations of François Jouve, Marc Fornes and Stephan Henrich. The urban biostructure thus generated remains contingent with protocols of indeterminations, fact of successive aggregations which Re-articulate the bond between the individual and the collective, but not only.

It will be the occasion to question this turbid zone ''of the emission and the collecting of the désirs' ', by the nonintrusive collection of signals neuropsychological and to seize moods of the future purchasers like as many generative inputs of the diversity and the heterogeneity of livable morphologies.

François Roche is member of R&Sie (N), limited liability company of architecture founded with Stéphanie Lavaux in 1993. He is of more teaching in ''the advanced studio' 'of Columbia University Gsapp/New York and of Angewangde School/Vienna in Austria.

François Roche, through the limited liability company was invited to six recoveries with the Biennale de Venise, took part in more than one score of international exhibitions and gave more than one hundred of conferences abroad. In France, this production structure and of research asserts a statute of native immigrant."

Hydoponics amoungus.

This R&Sie(n) project grows on you with its 1200 hydroponics ferns and its 300 glass beakers that collect the rain to feed them.

LOST IN PARIS

It s the story of an urban witch living behind a rear windows designed as a duck cabana. As alchemist, she feeds the plant with drop by drop hydroponics system watering liquid substances coming from the bacterian chemical preparation in 200 beakers disseminated in the ferns surfaces.The neighborhood is both attracted by the green aspect and repulsed by the brewage and the process to produce it.

don't burn on re-entry

Having conquered the world made of bits, you need to reform the world made of atoms. Not the simulated image on the screen, but corporeal, physical reality. Not meshes and splines, but big hefty skull-crackingly solid things that you can pick up and throw. That's the world that needs conquering. Because that world can't manage on its own. It is not sustainable, it has no future, and it needs one.
-Bruce Sterling

It's about time I returned out of retirement and continued in my pursuit. (I hit some unfortunate events and one unfortunate vehicle hit me...)

But alas, returned.

I am in Minneapolis right now for the week. I am attending the ACADIA conference on silicon and skin. They focus on bio materials in digital design in architecture. Some of the speakers are a few of my favorites:: Sanford Kwinter and Francios Roche. Others I am interested in are :: Jerome Frumar, Charles Lee, Jelle Feringa, Aaron Westre, and of course who would be talking at this conference? RAMESH! my first computer modeling teacher from Carnegie Mellon University. Oh the days of FormZ. More to come as I attend.

I am reposting my final (sofar) video later today. It up loaded incorrectly before. Sorry about that.

BUZZ WORD! TODAY!!!

SELF-ORGANIZING SPACE

Self Organization - a process in which pattern at the global level of a system emerges solely from numerous interaction among the lower-level component of the system. Moreover the rules specify interactions amount the systems' components are execution only local information with out reference to the global pattern.
(Self-Organization in Biological Systems)

What are the mechanisms and how they differ in biological systems verses physical systems.

Well it might happen in outer space. Let's look at the scales of self organization...
























To more Elaborate on the first diagram here are is the relativity of the scales involved:

























On a side note: everytime I tend to get an Idea about all this. I turn around and find that Mr. Roche was already there. Another hot shot to mention is Mitchell Joachim.

Words from Roche

"To reclaim the scenarios and substances that condition architectr and reveal the contraditcions and fantasies that drive our societies, we need, on the contrary to draw on this vibrating, disquieting and voluptuously temporarily. Architecture is not something to be thought or produces for later, like the stander bearer for a morality. It can only be negotiated live, in its contingency on a situation and is solubility in a set of givens." FRANCIOS ROCHE_ (Science) Fiction & Mass Culture Crisis

"We are in the situation where we don't know what is going on, so we are in the city doing micro-architecture. If you start with a virus, you can change everything, you know, with the contamination system." (R&Sie)

What happens when you fall in love? and What ever you read and hear or see from this other party makes all the sense in the world to you?

It has me in a sticky position. Almost frustrating. But eyes on the prize. Ultimately, this exploration will be fulfilled through installations and a movie? I am working on a list of projects and will post them as soon as I reach a proper number.

inhabitable organism

Programming scenarios: R&Sie(n)...
In Issue 8 of Praxis, the work of Francois Roche and Stephanie Lavaux is unraveled via their redefining architectural programming at the micro and macro scales thus to insturmentalizing the material processing of place. Their understanding of program synthesizes ecology, biology, and built form as both critique and catalyst. They use an evolving definition for program in architecture.
What is programming:
Architecture- a design brief of space requirements or activities
computer science- a sequence of coded instructions input into a mechanism that enable it to perform in a specified manner

biology- a sequence of coded instructions (as genes or behavioral responses) embedded with in the organism itself- integral to the building's life processes in relation to its biotope

By substituting the words biotope and scenario for site and design, R&Sie(n)... mess with the materiologies of the hyper-local. They code the intelligent material, the "genius materiae", the material of place, they spark a process to produces unanticipated and constantly evolving effects.

"Their uncompromising views and creations are highly experimental. Such elements as metamorphosis, fluid ecology, clones, biorobotics and advanced medicine play an important part. Their 'architecture non standard' is not static, but lively and amorphous. Their visionary exhibition 'I've heard about (a flat, fat, growing urban experiment)' shows an urban planning Utopia comprising a self-engendered,
independently growing biostructure." _

The article pin points out their project : Dusty Relief, a museum of contemporary art in Bangkok. The proposal exploits its context, using the highly toxic urban atmosphere. The dust, soot, and smog are now an integral part of the Bangkok's biotope and as an indigenous material that's modified the city's climate. The proposal juxtaposes the geopolitical architectural ambitions of a museum with the highly local site chemical specificity of its toxic micro-ecology. It produces a duality of co-existence with the pristine white-walled galleries to the polluted atmosphere. (WASTE=FOOD according to McDonough, yet this takes it to a new level. Less chic band aide, more reaction.) This building works because it announces to society, "yes, we human beings did fuck up the environment, now we need to use what we have," instead of just using hay for insulation and slapping on solar panels on the west side in a smog filled city, it is accepting the environment and working from there, re-adapting.

How does this work? The building has an electrostatically charged mesh cladding designed ot attract the fine particles in the air. As time passes, the dust continues to accumulate with carbon monoxide particles precipitating on the amorphous ectrostatic shell, augmenting the evolving particle landscape. Unlike most "architecture", the building attracts versus repel, absorbing and "feeding" off of its environment.
R&Sie(n)... set up the system for change and evolution to occur, not prescribing a fundamental construction. They are playing off of an organic rule set, not fighting nature but incorporating it, exposing it, and enhancing it.

We are going this way.