Neo‐Machine: Architecture Without People

Young, Liam

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“…Le Corbusier designed his buildings based around the Modulor … In the age of the network, however, the body is no longer the dominant measure of space; instead it is the machines that occupy the spaces that now define the parameters of the architecture that contains them … [,] whose form and materiality is configured to anticipate the logics of machine perception and comfort rather than our own. 16 Returning to speculative fictions on screen, like the 2018 rendition of Dick's Autofac, we notice how impermeable the new machine world order is. The Amazonesque warehouse of its nuclear year zero is a fortress.…”

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No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films

Stasiowski

2020

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In the ascending age of automation factories, storage facilities, and server farms, intelligent buildings are becoming less dependent on human maintenance. These new and updated architectural forms do not comply with traditional typologies. From the Vitruvian Man to Modulor, our bodies were the measure of most constructions. Yet automation renders new constructions incompatible with patterns of human habitation. This article focuses on the iconography of buildings designed to operate with little to none human interaction, providing an insight into how such settings influenced recent (last decade) science-fiction films like Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017), Captive State (dir. Rupert Wyatt, 2019), I Am Mother (dir. Grant Sputore, 2019), or Transcendence (dir. Wally Pfister, 2014). In each of them, artificial intelligence is an intrinsic composite of the environment, terraforming a post-anthropocentric reality of data centres, automated warehouses and drosscapes.

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No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films

Stasiowski

2020

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“…In the age of the network, however, the body is no longer the dominant measure of space; instead it is the machines that occupy the spaces that now define the parameters of the architecture that contains them. 14…”

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Unlearning Architecture: Environmental History of Production Spaces from Mill Buildings to Machine Landscapes

Daglioglu,

Guler

2021

Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design in Action

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Anthropocene is the present geological epoch in which human-built infrastructures dominate the resources of the world and the highest level of human intrusion to the ecosystems have been accumulated since the Industrial Revolution. Utilization of the steam engine initiated change in energy sources and extraction of raw materials that altered the existent means of production and led to the hegemony of industrial activities. The spread and growth of industry prevailed onto the practice of architecture to construct rapidly developing bases of production, storage, and distribution. Therefrom, physical embodiments of these bases as an overall system enable to relate energy, labor, and technology as fundamental elements of industry with the discourse of architecture. Hence, this study examines three architectural typologies -mill buildings, daylight factories, machine landscapes- for the evolution of production as a historical overview and analyzing the typologies with an emphasis on environmental history uncovers the intricate relations in between these elements and architecture in the exigency of climate change. Cases from different industrial periods reflect the altering nature of energy, labor, and technology regarding means of production, construction techniques, and materials. Acting as design parameters through the spatial transformation from mill buildings to daylight factories, and now to the machine landscapes, these relations indicate the interdependency between architecture and industry, and allow to formulate further spatial entities for production that are more climate-conscious within the curricula of architectural pedagogy.1

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“…Consequently, how do architects acknowledge and interact with reality? (Fankhänel & Lepik, 2020;Young, 2019;Carpo, 2017;Vidler, 2004;Zellner, 1999); What kind of spatial practices and spatial production are emerging within this context? Today, discussions in architectural and urban spatial practices are shaped by many ideas.…”

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IDEAS: Interactive Database for Experimental Architecture and Spatial Practices

Lopes¹,

Paio²

2021

Blucher Design Proceedings

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The interface of science and technology has become a fruitful transdisciplinary research field for spatial practices. To address this hybridization of space-related research, it is fundamental to ask what kind of practices are emerging within this context. To promote easy access and the dissemination of methodologies applied in innovative experimental spatial practices, the present study proposes the creation of a web-based Interactive Database for Experimental Architecture and Spatial Practices, IDEAS. Therefore, we will scope, observe, examine, and classify the digital cultural landscape in the 1960-2020 period. This paper describes the methodology applied to develop IDEAS.

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Neo‐Machine: Architecture Without People

Cited by 6 publications

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No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films

No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films

Unlearning Architecture: Environmental History of Production Spaces from Mill Buildings to Machine Landscapes

IDEAS: Interactive Database for Experimental Architecture and Spatial Practices

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