Life Caught Unaware

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RESEARCH BACKGROUND Many MVS projects have been relational projects. They have investigated the reification of abstract entities or relationships into architectural matter through machinic processes. Streaming Houses differs in readmitting the contingent dross of the world as material for transformation. If a relational project can engage a viewer, it is through correspondence with her experience of how things work in the world. It is an empathic relationship between the becoming of the architectural object, and the becoming of the viewer. A tree and its movement, my phone's signal failure, the collapse of a stock-market, the dancer's fouette, produce patterns for a viewer's understanding of constructive relations. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION The 3 projects exhibited in Machinic Practices continue and expand the research begun with the initial Streaming House (2002) project. AT scan data is generally visualised by deploying a technique that generates an isosurface through a three dimensional grid of discrete data. A video stream has a similar form of data, and so a similar technique should be successful. The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe is a protoypical experiment in modernist architectural form. Streaming House deploys this technique and observation as a novel means of generating new architectural form from Mies' seminal work. The resulting project provides a contemporary re-examination of this historic architectural work, and demonstrates a novel and precise architectural design technique. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE Streaming House was previously exhibited in the "Convergence: Hotspot Melbourne - Young Architects Exhibition" for the 1st International Architecture Biennale Beijing in 2004, and was published in "10 x 10_2 100 Architects 10 Critics" in 2005. The Architects Exhibition at the 2010 Beijing Biennale featured the work of a select number of international practices.