Texas A&M University. Department of Architecture. T4T LAB Spring 2015.
ALIEN, MESSY, DISCRETE
Invited Professor: Gilles Retsin
With Gabriel Esquivel
Team: Matt Kohman, Hannah Galbraith, Alex Nelson, Briseida Hernandez and Tyler Larsen
Object-oriented programming does not dispute this view of the world as
to restructure to a higher level. It groups operations and data into modular
units called objects and lets you combine objects into structured networks to
form a complete program. In an object-oriented programming language, objects
and object interactions are the basic elements of design. Every object has both
state (data) and behavior (operations on data). In that, they're not much
different from ordinary physical objects. It's easy to see how a mechanical
device, Such as a pocket watch or a piano, embodies both state and behavior.
Early discussions and hi fidelity test with scripted techniques necessitated
a framework in which to communicate with the object and appropriate agency,
this lead to an interest in scalessness through resolution and use of the mega-structure.
What are you all among currently, this object, is algorithms, materials,
properties, processes, tectonics, materiality, and agency operations given
towards a holistic understanding of itself.
The high fidelity hi-tech machine produces a plane of eminence that is
flat but unintelligible. Hi definition confounds the anthropocentrism and It became
Important to move towards a realist ontology past by expanding our discussion
hi fidelity / hi tech and engage the object using a directly accessible via low
tech fabrication. We define the project as an Autopoietic machines are
homeostatic machines. But ITS uniqueness lies not in this but in the
fundamental variable that maintain constant. This autopoietic machine is a
system organized as a concatenated production Processes producing components such
components:
a) Generate processes (relations of production that occurs through their
continuous interactions and transformations, and
b) Up to the machine as a unit in physical space.
Therefore, to specific autopoietic machine continuously specifies and
produces its own, their own organization by producing components, under
continuous disturbance and compensation of these disturbances (production of
components).
This autopoietic machines posses individuality; That is, by the
invariant maintenance organization maintain an identity actively That does not
depend on Their interaction With an observer.
This translation from big data, scripting and digital manipulation to
low tech fabrication is not about representation. It is about speculative
realism. The object, though unknowable, negotiates the persistent dialog of
building and technology by utilizing low-fi fabrication as a plausible reality
rather than waiting for technology to develop.
The machines of communication now become craft, basic construction
materials, PVC pipe and glue, CNC pen drawings etc. Perhaps though 10 steps
removed from construction, it is moving towards a physical manifestation
Realized. Each machine, from complex algorithm to PVC joint connection is given
each translation agency and have little relation to the other emerging With no
hierarchy. The library, though perceivably to mereological diagram translator
whose functions as machines and tech levels between equalizing them on the same
plane.
