Tropostructures
Life Engineering 04
Architectural Association
Diploma Unit 14,
London, United Kingdom, 2003-2004
Professors: Ciro Najle and Hanif Kara
Lecturers and Collaborators: Christian Hutter Blueml, Jordi Pages i Ramon, Raymond Lau, Raoul Bunschoten, George Lliaropoulos Legendre
Consultants: Sabina de Jesús, Paul Earwalker, Scott Hull, Susan Mantle
Students: Carol Aoun, Kelvin Chu, Daniel Coll, Andrea Distefano, Aleksandra Jaeschke, Tristan Job, Hom Min KimKimn, Hikaru Kitai, Leonidas Lazarakis, Beatriz Mínguez de Molina, Joana Pacheco, Jordi Pages i Ramon, Alexia Petridis, Luisa Sánchez
Linear determinism is an extremely particular case in the organization of matter where the effect fully explains the cause, providing it of a sense of rationality and meaning, operating as an external form of validation. Without the need of falling in the dichotomy between critical and functional modes of practice, under nonlinear regimes this exteriority can be said to constantly grow out the interiority of systems. Open systems tend to estrange themselves without any ancillary critical substrate. They get alienated through intensity of interactions, by acceleration and proliferation.
Tropostructures explores the state of things of the skyscraper as the ultimate architectural organization capable to absorb a self-surmounting systemic megalomania in a consistent cybernetic universe, an abstract machine that generates collaborations through extreme intensification.
Tropostructures is used to dissolve the conventions still present in the skyscraper typology, liberating its dependence on congestion and bigness as initial conditions.
London is the field of proposition.
