Link to article here. “Synthetic-biology-based approaches to design practices, which have a material engagement with design and engineering practices, propose a new set of conditions in which architectures can alter their characteristics to suit changing environmental conditions. Living materials raise the possibility that buildings can make a positive impact on their local surroundings by performing […]
The Media Event as an Aparatus for Time and Space The Media event can be conceptualized as a massive occasion in respect to both time and space. These events tend to revolve around news events ( a distiction to be made later) but are intensified through a period of speculation, coverage, and post event […]
Leading up to Sydney’s Olympic bid in 1993, they were faced with a difficult decision. What should they do with the potential Olympic park site? They needed to address the toxic waste that was there from cement and brick making factories over the decades, but they didn’t want to invest too much money if they […]
MACHINE VII is a collaboration of ATWOOD-A with Alex Robinson. MACHINE VII is a sand deposition, extraction and manipulation machine. It makes renewable piles of sand.
For the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the chosen site was located in the historic Bund and largely residential area. Shanghai has been replacing the old for the new for the past two decades or so, but this project created a surge of demolition and has synthetically altered the fabric in one fell swoop. This also created […]