Fluxes
MAAT – Central Tejo
Enumeration and measurement have always been at centre stage in the architecture of modernity. The energy, material and information fluxes that shape the entities on which we depend for the continuity of inhabitation need now to be reassessed. How to recalibrate our measurements to intercept the new figures shaping life on Earth at these unstable times? Weight as a new unit for architecture.
Fluxes meditates on what does it mean for architecture to be the material carrier of these transformations? Made up of 30 trillion tons of materials the global cities are an intricate entanglement of evolving structures, geometrically complex systems and spatially diverse environments. The question on how to measure how heavy is a city, challenges audiences to detect the Anthropocene signal amidst the noise of the Earth.
As the delineation of what needs to be examined and measured can be considered a time series, we encounter a typically architectural question of distinguishing signal and noise, figure and background. It is a question that also requires a redefinition of the model of noise: how large are the natural fluctuations, how to understand interventions and projects?
MAAT – Central Tejo
Enumeration and measurement have always been at centre stage in the architecture of modernity. The energy, material and information fluxes that shape the entities on which we depend for the continuity of inhabitation need now to be reassessed. How to recalibrate our measurements to intercept the new figures shaping life on Earth at these unstable times? Weight as a new unit for architecture.
Fluxes meditates on what does it mean for architecture to be the material carrier of these transformations? Made up of 30 trillion tons of materials the global cities are an intricate entanglement of evolving structures, geometrically complex systems and spatially diverse environments. The question on how to measure how heavy is a city, challenges audiences to detect the Anthropocene signal amidst the noise of the Earth.
As the delineation of what needs to be examined and measured can be considered a time series, we encounter a typically architectural question of distinguishing signal and noise, figure and background. It is a question that also requires a redefinition of the model of noise: how large are the natural fluctuations, how to understand interventions and projects?