Last Lost Competition

Last (lost) entry for "ARCH+ Competition, Simple Systems - Complex Capacities"

Brief:"The design of a material system that is in exchange with is context-specific environment and that, in doing so, can fulfil functional and performative requirements."

The entry proposed a profilerated field of homeostatic cable structures addressing pluri-potential capacities such as structural, organizational, environmental and spacial ones. What is promoted is the articulation of a heterogeneous, differentiated structure.

"Without modifications to the social and material environment, there can be no change in mentalities. Here, we are in the presence of a circle that [...] postulate the necessity of founding an "ecosophy" that would link environmental ecology to social ecology and to mental ecology".(F.Guattari )

HOMEOSTATIC serie: cable nets_05

Homeostasis (from Greek: ὅμος, hómos, "equal"; and ιστημι, histēmi, "to stand"; coined by Walter Bradford Cannon) is the property of a system, either open or closed, that regulates its internal environment so as to maintain a stable, constant condition.

Special thanks:

The AA: Brett Steele, Michael Kubo, Vanessa Norwood, Lee Regan, Luke Currall
Steelwork Fabricators: Chelsea Metalworks
Installation erection: All helpers including Ricardo Bittini Miret, Derek Wong, Sarah Ord, Aoife Bloomer, Alvaro Gonzales, Adiam Sertzu, Ifeanyi Oganwu.
All photographs by: Valerie Bennett