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fall of Berlin wall

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May ‘68, Apollo 11 ’69

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World War I

Harvard Mark I computer

personal computing

personal electronics

computational geometry and representation

Luhmann, Essays on Self-Reference

cellular automata

neural networks

multiagent systems

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Poincaré, Einstein, Relativity

homeostasis

Lorenz, Mandelbrot, chaos

Planck postulate

Haraway, Cyborg ManifestoGuerilla Girls

Holzer, Your GazeDeleuze, Guattari, Line of FlightSimondon, L'individuation psychique et collective

Maturana, Varela, Autopoiesis and CognitionBateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Schumacher, ParametricsHarman, Speculative Realism

Latour, Actor-Network Theory

Paine, SCUMAK

Reas, Fry, Processing

Culture LabKwinter, Crary, ZONE books

Archilab

Un-Private HouseLynn, Animate Form

Allen, Points and Lines FOA, OsanbashiWhiting, Somol, Doppler Affect

De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Rahm, Meteorologic Architecture

ANY 23, Diagram WorkEisenman, Fin d’Ou T House

Gehry, Guggenheim

Hadid, Vitra stationOMA, Eurolille

Ars Electronica Venice Biennale ArchitecturePiano, Rogers, Beaubourg

Rowe, Collage CityTschumi, Manhattan Transcripts

Koolhaas, Delirious New York

Hejduk, Mask of Medusa

Tafuri, Sphere and Labyrinth

Five on Five (Grays vs Whites)

E.A.T. Pepsi pavilionConway, Game of Life

Negroponte, AMG

Le Corbusier, Xenakis, Philips pavilionBanham, Theory and Design in the First Machine AgeAlexander, Notes on a Synthesis of Form

Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Pask, Colloquy of Mobiles

Price, Fun PalaceRossi, Architecture of the City Archigram, Plug-in City

Architecture Principe, Oblique

E.A.T. 9 evenings

Deconstructivist ArchitectureDerrida, A Letter to Peter Eisenman

Winograd, SHRDLU

Tinguely,Homage to NYWarhol, Silver Clouds

Team XHorst Vittell, Ulm Hochschule

Foucault, The Order of ThingsSimon, Sciences of the Artificial

Chomsky, Generative Grammar

Derrida, Grammatology

Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

Levi-Strauss, Savage MindMcLuhan, Understanding Media

Pound, Cantos

Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Wiener, Cybernetics

Lacan, Mirror StageJung, Archetype

Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Dali, Conquest of the Irrational

Breton, Surrealist ManifestoRay, Daring Gift

International Surrealist Exhibition

Columbia, paperless studios

sci arc robotics

AA, grad programmes

Kipnis, Toward a New Architecture

Modern Architecture - International Exhibition

GreenbergRosenberg

Pollockde Kooning

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Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect

Riley, Fall

Smithson, Spiral JettyHeizer, Double Negative

Raushenberg

BAUHAUSMoMA

Black Mountain CollegeHarvard Graduate School of Design

Dali, Dream of Venus PavilionAalto, Finnish Pavilion

CIAM

Fuller, Dymaxion

van der Rohe, Barcelona pavilion

Le Corbusier, L’Esprit Nouveau

Novembergruppe

Der Blaue Reiter

Moholy-Magy, Light Space Modulator

Werkbund

Cologne Werkbund ExhibitionTaut, Glass pavilion

Kant

Hegel Muybridge, Marey, Chronophotography

Crick, Watson, DNA structure

SputnikNASA

Paris, Exposition UniverselleFreud, Interpretation of Dreams

Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto

Frye, Anatomy of Criticism

Masson, Automatic DrawingSaussure, Course in General Linguistics

Duchamp, Why not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy?Guillaume Appollinaire, L'esprit nouveau et les poètes

Armory Show

Latent UtopiasHouses at Sagaponac

Ordos100

RUR, Water Garden

3d printingarduino microcontrollers

gestalt psychologyartificial intelligence

artificial life

The Map of the World, 2014(by the authors)Considered within a wider milieu, where a distinction and separation of architecture from its potentially allied disciplines is collapsed, architecture has access to more than an interiority of its own epistemic knowledge and discipline. The past century has witnessed an increase of cultural production.

“Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.”Cedric Price (with the aid of Gordon Pask) on the multi-channel machinations of the Fun Palace, 1962

The promise of postwar machine-human situations as seen in the work of Cedric Price, Archizoom, and Haus Rucker, with its American strain in the E.A.T., remain unrealized. However, their reappraisal comes at a time when access and economy have intersected with their principles for a sustainable and adaptive environments. Affordable micro-electromechanical components, and mass-consumer technologies allow for architecture that is not simply technocratic and at ease with its own robotics, but pursues an agency of the flexible, and environmental.

The Artefactory proposes a reinvention of epochal Guggenheim facilities. Situated on a harbourfront in Scandinavia, this region already has unique a climate and cultural identity. The city of Helsinki enjoys a robust economy, civil services, and cultural infrastructure. New libraries, performaning arts centres and existing galleries create a strong network, for which theArtefactory need not produce an antecedent.

Given this condition of autonomy, the Artefactory may claim a higher-order polemic. Following the success of the Guggenheim in the Basque region of Spain, we can not offer greater interest in form.

What we would propose is a new experiment in urbanism and citizenship. Artefactory is an engagement in an interior urbanism, an extension of the city within a Guggenheim. This urbanism is generated by articulating an artificial ground - one that is charged with potential and superimposed programming - that supports multiple scales of spaces and human occupancy.

This new artificial ground of Helsinki is populated by urban figures that may reconfigure along the raumplan. This space is meant to be open and available to the public, and the figures create rooms within a larger house and form plazas among them.

Above the public terrain is an open infrastructural, volumetric envelope that holds the private spaces of offices, administration, management. This envelope is adjustable to mediate levels of light, and interior weather such as rain or snow in the winter. For the artificial ground below the mechatronic envelope, the environment gains agency.

site boundary

artificial ground / programmable, flexible

interior urbanism / grounded objects

volumetric shell /second interior

LeftScenario for an annual calendar of events

at the ArteFactory, modeled after Moholy-Nagy’s Partiturskizze zu einer Die

Mechanische Exzentrik, 1921 (inset). An open frame of activities is possible across

disparate scales and spaces.

AboveSection diagram of urban figures between

artificial ground and mechatronic envelope.

For Phase One of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition: a staging of central ideas.

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LeftFigures sculpted from wood are arranged on the ground and

support spaces above. The enclosure is a flexible series of wood panels and solid-surface panels that reconfigure.

RightThe drawings suggest a thickened, artificial ground above which is an open reconfigurable gallery space. In the envelope above are elevated walkways looking down to an artificial city within.

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This pageThe deep section of the envelope and roof contains walkways, changeable oculii, overlooking the open artificial ground below.

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