The commitment to finding inspiration from nature is a disciplinary stance with a rich heritage and one of the most conflicted metaphors in the history of architecture. Postdigital Natures of Planet B questions this approach by exploring ambiguous overlaps and interfaces between the natural, the virtual, and the built environments. Through a series of reconfigurable architectural components, the project explores a variety of interfaces between the aforementioned domains. Paired with virtual overlays, various 3D-printed structures highlight contemporary potentials of novel, renewable, recyclable and regrowable materials in conjunction with robotic fabrication. In the project, organic shapes and metabolic ambience interact with each other. The integration of non-human agents—both flora and fauna—further questions the role of spacemaking in the Anthropocene. Together the proliferation of all those components establishes a positive, colorful, postdigital vision of Planet B.
photo: tom mesic
photo: tom mesic
Biography
Credits
Postdigital Natures of Planet B, by PDNB: Marjan Colletti, Peter Massin, Theresa Uitz, Andreas Körner, Georg Grasser, Philipp Schwaderer, Jan Contala, Mümün Keser.
Student collaborators: Catalina Tripolt, Kilian Bauer, Julian Edelman, Mehmet Cakir
STUDIOTOPIA is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
