Luis Fernando Odiaga [IaaC]

Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger

More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over

[sheet #4 intellectual property of Daniel Castro-Cordano] 

GORDUGA, f (zool): Entiendase, una Oruga que ha comido, al punto de engordar tando que no puede moverse para volver a casa, menos aun continuar comiendo pues sus extremidades ya no tienen contacto con el suelo. En consecuencia, no es más una simple Oruga pues su volumen ha modificado su escencia y su funcion, es en cambio y por consecuencia una GORDUGA.

Organic waste now can be used for two main very productive matters… soil fertilizer and energy supplier. With the use of a BIO-DIGESTOR Methane-gas can be extracted from a big amount of organic waste, also the remainder of this process is a fertilizer very rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

Re-thinking architecture in terms of organic architecture —always with clear mind about the differences between design process and final result— as thinking of an organic design process —very much related with growth than with simply aggregation of parts— is also allowed to think on a decomposed organic design process which will be mostly all the design methods that were used only in one project or just used.  But, as the organic waste is more richer with a great variety of organic sources, then what will be encouraged in the compost architecture will be the mix of decomposed organic design process to forge a new way of thinking, taking advantage of what other architects already developed but with the compromise of making a big leap from the initial state.

This is also very simple and difficult at the same time… by this days is very simple to copy and paste pictures, mp3, dwg, etc… is even very simple to copy a complete script, the difficulty is about being able to consider all the actual knowledge as raw material, also decomposed organic design process, just to be able to look after a more global and complete phase of design, which in all ways will be considered as a never ending process. And oviously to get a GOD result/process.

[GO TO: Digital Technologies in Architecture’s Blog: G01 Maite Bravo / Javier Olmeda / Luis Odiaga]

Plato wrote about how un-real are the forms that our eyes can see —the world of the changing physical objects—, because they are just a shadow of the idea(eidos)—which he described as the light of the truth… the world of unchanging ideas —. In the other hand Jean Baudrillard introduced the logic of the symbolic exchange; the simulation of the whole reality as a characteristic of the contemporary society—or maybe [the copy/paste culture], always emergent culture— this two ideas of the form have in common the comprehension that the human mind is always misunderstanding something about the relation between the container, the content, and obviously the symbol(ic) meaning of the objects. 

The form of the buildings no matter how strange they seem to be at first sight and how indecipherable appears to be their meaning, always receive a nickname that reveals the impossibility of being out-of-this-world in design matters, just think about the “the fish” of Gehry; “The lightning (blitz)” of Libeskind; “El supositori” of Jean Nouvel…and so on. It doesn’t matter what the architect says about his project but what people understands about it and how this strange forms appear to them on their minds, more specific…on their memory.

Exploring the idea of complex geometries necessarily looks after this misunderstanding; this is just to blur the boundaries and think of the object, the shape, the content and the meaning as a unit that is in a constant flux inside, interchanging places or even avoiding them, always remembering that the human mind is guilty of naming and classifying things just to be sure and proud of the acquired knowledge, leading the conciseness of people to try to tag everything… and then becomes the eternal question of which came first: the EGGstructure or the sHapEN?