BARRICADE
exhibited at the biennale venice 2018
|2017|
The studio aimed to produce a film that critiques urban format,
exploring mediums between realism and fiction while comparing top-down
and bottom-up urbanism, emphasizing bottom-up urbanism as a counter
reaction to 'urbanism of control'.
This new architecture is generated by contour crafting (khoshnevis) but in
a process that allows it to be constantly malleable and receive various inputs
that disrupt the predictable programm. The resulting form thus becomes indeterministic,
the political antidote to anticipatory modes that make space a system of
control.
Barricade is a scenario that speculates on the preliminary conditions that
organize 'living together'. The story revolves around a man, who excluded
himself from society to discover this biostructure. The sheltering, as an
individualistic plato grotto, is produced by his own physiology. Simultaneously
a robotic process produces his sorrounding architecture by detecting his
own psycho reaction(sweating, heartbeat) and responding by changing shape.
A resident of the 'collective', engages with him in a political and ideological
discussion on the implications and consequences of his choice.
