“What could Architecture be? How could an environment move around us, maybe know us, maybe even care about us?”
Philip Beesley, 2010
Hylozoic Ground
is a speculative landscape, that proposes a new artificial environment which chemically and physically behaves as a natural, living organism - breathing, sensing and regenerating.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS
Our time-field research collates and relates the body of works that form this emerging field of hybridised nature-technology - from human bodies merging with new technologies, to artificial structures adopting the systems, functions or behaviours found in plants and animals, as well as the emerging technological inventions themselves, which are feeding this field of research.
The Hylozoic Ground installation successfully provides a realization of hylozoism - the philosophy that all matter has life. This fantastic meeting of nature and technology leads us to consider future landscapes - what if synthetic lifeforms could offer us the same nourishing interaction as that which we seek out in nature?
Hylozoic Ground is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed atthe Master in Advanced Architecture in 2018 by: Students: Alvarez Olivia, Fechner Maria, Franco Anaisa, Nikitaras Antonis, Smylie Megan, Testa Filippo Faculty: Jordi Vivaldi, Manuel Gausa Assistant: Mohamad Elatab
