Thesis

It’s really late right now, and I’ve got to structure my presentation.  I know it’s against good judgment, but I don’t want to go sleep until i have this figured out.  It would be easy to articulate my concepts if only I had kept my mind open to conceptual development while fabricating the table.  But that’s another story for another day.

So let’s begin.

What have I created?

The pencil, mouse and keyboard are prosthesis.  Extensions that allow, the handler to engage various realms of representations and realities.  The table I have created is a prosthesis for the user to engage and access a unique digitally constructed world.

This world, is a realm where individual ‘units’, in aggregation create 3D geometry.  Each unit has its own set of capabilities, and inherent dispositions. They have an intelligence, and behavioral logic that makes them cognizant of it’s environment and proximity.

To engage these individual(s), a table is crafted with a mechanism, that allows a person to alter and introduce behaviors. The idea is to allow a person to playout/introduce combination of behaviors, thereby influencing the digital world’s method of self-fabrication.  This table, in essence, provides an ominous perspective into the production of a world.

Where is the Architecture?

If architecture is driven by technique.  Then technique enables possibilities for realization.  By transferring the responsibility over to the ‘units’ to craft geometry, based on the conditions of the environment, the ‘new’ technique, is about controlling the ecology of techniques.  The architecture is no longer about solving geometrical problems, or or any post rationalization of complex form for construction, because that responsibility is transferred over to capable intelligent processes.  Instead the greater architectural question is how will we manage these processes towards our own preferences, and inherent inefficiencies.

In an overal sense, this table becomes a control deck for the management of techniques.  Though the result is the dynamic production and rationalization of geometry, it is ultimately the management of techniques that determines which of the infinite possibilities becomes palatable to our collective whims.

Why am I interested in this?

Good Question…