Vibrant architecture: matter as a codesigner of living structures
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2015Autor
Armstrong, Rachel
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Michałowicz, Monika
Jackson, Davina
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This book sets out the conditions in which the need for a new approach to the
production of architecture in the 21st century is established, where our homes
and cities are facing increasing pressures from environmental challenges that are
compromising our wellbeing and our lives. Vibrant architecture embodies a new kind
of architectural design practice that explores how lively materials, or ‘vibrant matter’,
may be incorporated into our buildings to confer on them some of the properties of
living things, such as movement, growth, sensitivity and self-repair.
My research examines the theoretical and practical implications of how this may
occur through the application of a new group of materials in the production of our
living spaces, collectively referred to as ‘vibrant matter’. Characteristically, these
substances possess some of the properties of living systems but may not have the
full status of being truly ‘alive’ and include forms of chemical ‘artificial’ life, such as
‘dynamic droplets’ or synthetically produced soils. These complex systems are able
to directly communicate with the natural world using a shared language of chemistry
and so negotiate their continued survival in restless contexts.
These chemical conversations may become a design strategy by applying the
principles of an emerging scientific field called natural computing, which is evolving
Alan Turing’s interest in the computational powers of Nature. Natural computing
shapes the outcomes of vibrant matter and offers a range of new tools for design
through a new technical operating system identified as an ‘assemblage’. Assemblages
provide a unique set of associated concepts, operating principles and qualitatively
distinctive outcomes from machines. A range of design projects that demonstrate
the principles of a new approach to the choreography of space are explored through
the construction of spatial programs and formulating design tactics in projects such
as the ‘Hylozoic Ground’ installation, a collaboration with architect Philip Beesley
for the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. Further experimental and speculative
development of the assemblage operating system is explored through further
design work in ‘Vibrant Venice’, which proposes to grow an artificial limestone reef
underneath the foundations of the city. Urban-scale outcomes are also explored in
‘Vibrant Cities’, which applies synthetic soils as a material and technological strategy
that optimizes environmental performance in underused and poorly imagined sites
within urban environments.
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Vibrant architecture; Matter as a CoDesigner; Living StructuresCreative Commons
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