Comments on: translation, machines, and embassies http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/ the herculez gomez of architecture blogs Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: John B http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8417 John B Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:19:50 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8417 The merit in Smout Allen's work is not about build ability it is about the treatment of the landscape as a dynamic system. Whether it be geologic, atmospheric or hydrologic all this systems are active, operating on a unique time scale. This state of flux is a constantly overlooked asset, providing potential for the architecture to augment or capitalize on a powerful resource. This idea of manipulating the boarders of a region by growing or retracting glaciers is one such example of how to take advantage of the landscape. The merit in Smout Allen’s work is not about build ability it is about the treatment of the landscape as a dynamic system. Whether it be geologic, atmospheric or hydrologic all this systems are active, operating on a unique time scale. This state of flux is a constantly overlooked asset, providing potential for the architecture to augment or capitalize on a powerful resource. This idea of manipulating the boarders of a region by growing or retracting glaciers is one such example of how to take advantage of the landscape.

]]> By: namhenderson http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8411 namhenderson Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:13:03 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8411 Stephen good point about unbuidable vs unfinanced. Plus as i think the later post on the "Blooming Landscape, Deep Surface" proposal makes clear they can propose a buildable object. Whereas Lebbeus's proposals so often as you seem to be about the anti-building? Stephen good point about unbuidable vs unfinanced.
Plus as i think the later post on the “Blooming Landscape, Deep Surface” proposal makes clear they can propose a buildable object. Whereas Lebbeus’s proposals so often as you seem to be about the anti-building?

]]> By: “blooming landscape, deep surface” - mammoth island storm // building nothing out of something http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8335 “blooming landscape, deep surface” - mammoth island storm // building nothing out of something Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:34:30 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8335 [...] can’t let Stephen’s mention of Smout Allen pass — particularly in the context of a discussion of process and event in [...] [...] can’t let Stephen’s mention of Smout Allen pass — particularly in the context of a discussion of process and event in [...]

]]> By: Stephen http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8330 Stephen Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:07 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8330 It's probably accurate to say that you couldn't build objects from the drawings exhibited by the firm, but I'm not sure that makes the represented objects unbuildable - just unfinanced (which is different from much of the work of Lebbeus, which often seems to be genuinely unbuildable, not that that really matters for his purposes). It’s probably accurate to say that you couldn’t build objects from the drawings exhibited by the firm, but I’m not sure that makes the represented objects unbuildable – just unfinanced (which is different from much of the work of Lebbeus, which often seems to be genuinely unbuildable, not that that really matters for his purposes).

]]> By: namhenderson http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8329 namhenderson Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:35 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8329 Off topic slightly but I just realized that to my eyes Smout Allen's drawings and renders seem similar in style to Lebbeus Woods own drawings. All angular chaotic and tectonic/geologic. Yet, hardly buildable objects in the usual sense. Off topic slightly but I just realized that to my eyes Smout Allen’s drawings and renders seem similar in style to Lebbeus Woods own drawings. All angular chaotic and tectonic/geologic. Yet, hardly buildable objects in the usual sense.

]]> By: rholmes http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/translation-machines-and-embassies/comment-page-1/#comment-8322 rholmes Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:46:19 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=1927#comment-8322 <i>"Or maybe they become control nodes for an army of geofluidic border research stations, themselves powered by and moving with the glaciers, tracking and influencing the shape of nations..."</i> Icelanders, jealous of the relative stability of the Swiss banking system, pay Russian hackers to introduce stealthy bugs into the computer code controlling the movements of the border stations; over time, minor fluctuations build into wild and unpredictable oscillations. Their borders literally unstable, the Swiss and the Italians prepare for war... “Or maybe they become control nodes for an army of geofluidic border research stations, themselves powered by and moving with the glaciers, tracking and influencing the shape of nations…”

Icelanders, jealous of the relative stability of the Swiss banking system, pay Russian hackers to introduce stealthy bugs into the computer code controlling the movements of the border stations; over time, minor fluctuations build into wild and unpredictable oscillations. Their borders literally unstable, the Swiss and the Italians prepare for war…

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