project34:Styling
The Para Sciences innovation center functions as a ‘multiplicity’ of activities; of BioGeometry, Of Radiesthesia, of Psychotropics, of Tarrot, Of numerology. These ‘be’ independent modules but will often have varying and transitory overlaps; effecting countless permutation-combinations of global configurations.
A fundamental question here is also about what response a ‘fluid’ demands in terms of being the ‘medium’ of a building as against a stationary medium. Structures built in or on water are not ‘incapacitated’ for movement as the ones on ground are. On the other hand, the activities in the brief too demand a ‘phenomenological’ experience of ‘surrealism’, but one that extends as a dialogic of reality. The project thus proposes a locally controlled swarm with its metaphor in Escher’s Metamorphosis.
As both a behavioural and structural metaphor, ‘Diatoms’ befit. Their underwater variety, with silica shells serves as a structural and ‘spatio-material’ case study for optimal performance, and their tentacle-as-anchor swarming behaviour serves as a reference point for Interactivity and global geometries configured variously. (Refer http://www.esotericonline.net/profiles/blogs/beautiful-diatoms-biological-art
This surreal-real dialogic finds its expression in the nested cages of each module, and this magic-technology duality in the way each ‘cage’ is centrally divided for researcher’s who may possess such ‘complementary’ opinions, as analogously in the idea of the yin and yang. Whereas the mystics own a 'disorienting' tentacle-like network of walkways that helps 'reterritorialize' mindframes, the scientists get a 'tame' open plan of the 'other' half.
The form is articulated in a way that when many of these connect, the visitor passes through the central spine without any visual access to the spheres en route. But the researcher’s themselves are immersed in intense ‘sensorial’ experiences. The idea of the nested outer envelope then is to provide surfaces for 'marine-parks', on which the haptic and sensory experience with flaura, fauna, sound, colour, transparency and smell may be modulated specific to each program.
One such module has been detailed for the field of Physical cosmology as approached by quantum physics philosophers versus mystics. The other modules may be variations on principle framework depending on their function.
