Smooth surfaces and glazed facades represented the challenges of modernist architecture. Architecture without ornaments or, as defined by Beatriz Colomina, X-ray architecture now faces the challenges of post-anthropocene. These are buildings not inhabited by people but by the machines, built to produce, share, reorganize or store - architecture without daylight, facades without windows, floors without stairs.
How do architects respond to the emerging challenges of the new era and the environment in which they are located? The exhibition will present previously rejected ornaments as an integrated part of several projects designed for or by the machines.
Buildings without People
Dan Sviták, Ivan Olontsev, Tomáš Růžička,
Tamara Salajová, Záviš Unzeitig, Adam Angelov,
Vojtěch Kordovský
Malin Hilding
Frida Block, Shervin Peyghambari
Buildings without people are already an integral part of our cities, yet often not integrated architecturally. The present projects replace five iconic 20th-century buildings with 21st century typologies such as data centers or logistics hubs inside of which humans are unwelcomed and inconvenient guests.
Material Moods
Petra Garajová, Marketa Osifová, Adam Varga
The ongoing research project explores the natural behavior of materials and possibilities of its self-organization. The synthesis of robotic production and material performance lies in the center of the research, developing new, fluid-based construction composites.
Platforms of Differential Growth
Petra Sochůrková
Design based on algorithmic evolution of geometries represents machine production without need of human intervention. Such systems are capable of self-reproduction and reparation. Exhibited concrete elements are cut-outs of an endless structure.
