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FIELDSTATION STUDIO: ARCHITECTURE & AUTOMATION expo 10/01

studio tutors: Corneel Cannaerts & Michiel Helbig

(presentation in cafeteria)

Fieldstation Studio presents their collective work exploring the impact of automation on architecture.

For more than a century automation has been radically impacting different parts of society, from agriculture, manufacturing, shipping and transportation, to governance and warfare. Initially automation was mainly aimed at increasing the efficiency of and avoiding the precarities associated with manual labor. Through developments in computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence, today automation is also affecting intellectual labor and even creative industries and design.

By means of a series of Field Guides, Fieldstation Studio explored and mapped how automation is particularly affecting the field of Architecture and raised specific questions; What is the nature and scale of the architectures and landscapes of automation? How can processes of design, fabrication and construction be automated? How bright is the future of the automated city and building? What is the impact of automation on the media ecology in which architecture operates? How is automation affecting imagination and the novel visual culture resulting from automated technologies reading and scanning of our environment?

These reflections on architecture and automation were then concretised through a number of speculative design projects, using the site of the former American pavilion at Expo 85 (or what’s left of it) as a canvas. During the World Exhibition in Brussels several aspects of our current (automated) society and the role of technology were introduced in this pavilion and a curiously accurate image of the future was presented. For the design exercise, both the topics that were discussed in the Field Guides and the context of the site formed a possible starting points, resulting in a variation of proposals and concrete examples of how architecture and automation (can) intersect.

more info:

http://www.fieldstationstudio.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/644520332954300/
http://www.blog-archkuleuven.be/field-station/