Texas A&M University T4T LAB Spring 2017
Invited Professor: Casey Rehm
Team: Stephanie Almendarez, Roxy Trevino, Gerson Ortiz.
TAXONOMIES AND CRANBERRIES
The intent for this object was to create various temporary
taxonomies from the items produced by the machine so that they could be used in
spatial organization. The
classifications would allow each element from the machine to perform any
action, for example as structure or furniture.
Because of this, the component pieces start possessing a vast number of
qualities and relations that cannot be reduced to a single simplistic
classification. This vast number of
qualities and relations form a network within the machine that allow for the
unit spaces to become customizable through one modular component present
throughout the whole object.
Addressing becomes important when the machine tries
distinguishing the components from one another and the user desires to
customize the unit….
These modular component pieces become a vehicle for the
information about the user. The
components are no longer just a column, window frame or a television stand but
pieces of data transmitting information to and from places. In order for these components to communicate
with one another, they must map and "enumerate all the elements that can
send and receive information, and providing each with an (at least temporarily)
unique address, regardless of what the address might resolve" (that being
whatever performative action it is being assigned) aids in the
intercommunication and assembly of these pieces both physically and
digitally.
The addressability organizes them according to a system
within the object that is made up of countless forms of classifications. The
numbering of the components is used as a form of organization within the object
itself...independent of the different addressing layers of the outside world.
Each component can be traced in different ways by different
users for different purposes all of which in turn could be addressed over again
leaving a durable marker on the object such that it can reconstituted
later. These ‘markers’ in each unit are
seen through spaces that have been booleaned out of from with the component
pieces that once existed there. These
markers are left from pre existing occupants of the space, whether it be human
or non-human.
Our building enhances the ability to share and gather
information, something operating in one area of the structure could sense or
activate or participate with information in some way that is different than its
normal capabilities may allow.
