Atmospheres
Skyscrapers in the United Nations in New York
Architectural Association
Intermediate Unit 01
London, United Kingdom, 1999-2000
Professor: Ciro Najle
Consultant: Hanif Kara
Partners: Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto
Collaborator: Spela Videcnik
Students: Cosimo Sesti, Hiromasa Makino, Jordi Pages i Ramon, Lea Katseli, Alastair Townsend, Basil Lee, Hikaru Kitai, Dean Swan Ho, Emu Masuyama, Manuel Grosso, Julia Mauser, Maija Korpak, Christoph Klemm, Cesar López Negrete, Borja Santamaria
Atmospheres are systemic organizational sets with an artificial behaviour and performance, machines of coexistent divergent temporalities: skies rather than skyscrapers.
Material and structural organizations work as the medium to integrate negotiations between otherwise segregated systems. Difference is considered as part of the systematicity of these relationships, as the modality by which the apparently accidental and the disturbing become the source of order, rather than its exception. Organizational regimes made of ranges of systemic sensitivity through internal variation are constructed as modalities of material and structural behaviour, thus becoming responsive to programmatic accommodation and constitutive of the logic and criteria of a material organization. Difference of degree is regarded, in this context, in its capacity to engender difference in kind.
Along the line that goes from raw matter to organized assemblies, lineages of complex prototypes are produced as an alternative to the modern idea of the prototypical.
