Monday March 19 / Saturday March 24, 2012 @ EMPAC.

Material Intensities

Host_Directors: Demetrios Comodromos (Clinical Professor) + Jefferson Ellinger (Assistant Professor).

Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the flow of light, vapour, molecular vibrations and growth schedules: design from the inside out.

The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and information.

Smart Geometry 2012 website

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