Codes in the clouds III – 2012AI Maribor Venice Biennale

TOPIC CITC III has been invited by the Slovenian curating team of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 and to join 2112AI for Maribor, the European Capital of Culture 2012 located in Slovenia. Maribor, a small city in the north-east of Slovenia with approximately 120.000 inhabitants between the mountains and the river Drava, has a vibrant cultural history whereas it belonged …

CITC III – Stigmergic Scape

Codes in the clouds – Dessau international graduate architecture school StigMergic Scape by Ali Farhan StigMergic Scape suggests a future conception of space as difference-reality, where the boundary of virtual and physical blends. It describes an argument to construct and rethink architectural spatial logic. Future residential and economic concerns are focused on to define the city scape as generic growth …

CITC II – Slime mold

The City and the City is a book about borders, mental separation, illusions and ambiguities generated by the existence of two cities in the same body. Slime mold (Physarum Polycephalum) is a biological organism that also has many ambiguities: it categorizes as a protist, it is a single cell organism but it contains multiple nucleuses, it shows complex behaviors despite …

CITC I – Lars Lerup Prize – Dripping link

Codes in the clouds – Dessau international graduate architecture school DRIPPING LINK – by Piangpim Thongsawang and Marzieh Gholami – 2011 This project is an investigation about the behaviour and principle of two natural material: Tissue and resin. Tissue can easily change into different shapes. It is made of wood fibers and composed of cellulose molecules. These individual fibers expand …

Codes in the clouds II – growth processes

TOPIC “Beyond the one-architect-one-machine dialogue, the milieu of adaptable machines must adapt further contacts with the real world. It must receive direct sensory information. It must see, hear, and read, and it must take walks in the garden.” N. Negroponte, 1970 C21 increasingly adopts physics, neuro-sciences, biology; architecture faces a paradigm shift in the 3rd industrial revolution – the age …