October - 2013

PLB Think Tank

Think Tank

Related to all architecture theory and research done by plb studio in and out of the academic realm

HAL-9000 / 2001 A Space Odyssey

research

We have become increasingly concerned with the bias towards aesthetics in building design, and the suppression of an urban discourse in the way buildings are conceived, taught and critiqued. The line of research takes place in multiple directions with two points in common:

1. The city is analyzed with tweaked eyes. Our eyes imagine the impossible in the blurring of the physical existing city limits towards a real cultural and social revolution acquired by connecting parts of the city that have never been connected before. But, how? The answer is in the new media that allows for a new digital umbrella targeting all human beings. This homogenous informational scope proposes different times, speeds, group rhythms and multi-existences while forwarding a new radical understanding of urban realities.

2. The Network dream. Shall we invent a new term to represent the expectations of people in this new globalized world? Could a new understanding of life quality and happiness for all be achieved only through ideas emerging from the net-world?

On Digital Deformation

Metamorphosis def.:a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means (Oxford Dictionary). There are many points of new discernment in a digital deformation protocol. These points signify a moment throughout the creative process where we elucidate an opening chance for future unique operations embedded in the overall process itself (applied to life: our existence would be the broadest process of all). From a t

Narrative City

Research agenda / Teaching Interest The dissertation’s index is both, in relationship to a concept and to the academic structure embedded in the concept. Thus the subtitles of this paper relate to the course of the writers interest and expertise. Index Introduction Middle Ground Shortcut to Narrative City Towards a Narrative City (seminar modern) From To (Introduction to Narrative City) Narrative City (studio) Let the war of scales begin! Site identity as a myth Parallel E