‘ascinais per Ia bellepa (cara. 0 ___|__les fécniques que ens ofereix el ter
temp:
pabie) de les 1 r trult per 1a societat oferint-tos
7 1 de formacié obert ingut o un altre, organits
= —_____| através de protocols intormatics. Jes en uns sistemes 0 en uns alttes,
"nica responsabilitat de Y'qutor___negant-ne unes i afirmant-ne unes
| consisteix a escollit eh. quin moment alttes per aixi fomar-les a 1a societat
—_|__ pita. el bots. maim, on___construint una visi6: les teeniques
betsky ha esorit a D lid 1s { Neugeres, per exemple, s6n_
i - Ant te tue opeié que busca menys “eternita’
te cnolagiques sorgeixen de revisita: a canvi de més facilitat i menys
- ol passat dotats de nous instruments _patiment, la substitucié de estore
(wegeu el Renaixement, vegeula_isic per lintel-lectual. del futur pol _
“Mustracie, vegew el Romonticieme). present
[- Noves |. thatsatiiain Jes tdcniquos no Festan mat quietes,
sposada, cada present només en.1é un conjunt
| frespat.teixirevars de Farquitectina | fimitat (abans, dela-successio.
ieeniq ni |.com ja sabem jols,elfemps acta de-congtints en el iempe sen dela:
a jon. tins fot er volucio). ames, també emspenyen
da quiet i diferents dizeccions temporals,
rel present. aquest instant, els | __s'unelxen amb altres aproximacions—
temps, sempre tan apressal,__ Yarquitectura i. aliades. polaritzen
[Eis limps sén Ja técnita, la técnica _|__les fletxes del temps en direccions
_ #5 la nosira relacié amb el present. _____miiltiples. De fet, podria dir-se amb,
no podrlem parla
Mes in choosing when to hit he Faint
button (as Aaron Betsky writes in
Domus). we tend to forget that many
_______technologica revolutions emerge —_
Tr —_|_—trom revisiting the past equippea___
ith new instruments dor example
the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,
_____ Romanticism). Time is the principal.
space
[tne heads and tails of architecture, —
___and. as we all know, time acts in
‘multiple directions, it even stands.
_____ still, suspended. io become the
time, always in such a hurry. Limbo is
technique, technique is our relation —
ext ose paral simpasi: “Design nelligence: The E\pandd Fel, Pinston, fbr 2008 with the present, we architects can.
___ only channel the techniques that the
vod Fai Peincthn Fab {offers to us by consinuct
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(ONSTRUCTED NATURE: Iftaki Abalosia meméria.(podriem dir amb Dela
ta, que."Yarquitectura és.alre_perd..
0s, aire carregal precisament.
[pmb aixd, amb arquitectura’). Quan
| fos tecniques evisiten Yarquitectura._|
ictivant el temps retroactiu, poden_|
_ produtt-se dos fenomens- un é5-el
ostdlgic, 1a recerca de 1a innocancial
impossible, “lavors si que sabien ter_|
jes coses’: !horror postmodern, en
‘na paraula, Peré quan les. técniques.
jen la. mitacié. siné.que___|
[pera potenciais det passat 1 que
[pnane.ne padlan nL somnicise en
__hoves, aleshores les fletxes del temps
ee
——laireccions. aparetx e1 projecte_ el
ojectar, el Hangar cap.endavant:
.sleixa s'inverteix i aspire si més no_|
—fcperetuar Larquitectura. La fletxa_|
~peplotn tots ls comps sente orp
Varquieciures en. cap cas sina | tap endavant jajno &
cinbshim a slates. retronctiva a.de_| —jeleolégiea dels bo
fs. com queda.
i.
topia, un prodés
.gons els primets e1
Ksiea, pers amb Pros
de la creativitat. fant humana
Lom biolégicé
lunitica les.
socials, que.e1
som.a present.
tropic. =o}
Gols intorcanvis gnite naturales.
ati! eiminaeté 0 dissolucto
rogtentiea.e qs cifproncies——
fenergia now abre.dimensians.---—| misma fla
fn aquesta constel labia de fleixea—
toik et ems
ttectura a 1a féeniea ne pot |
iter el-vector més elemental
units. qi
rimer a
clencles neturals. exactes |
colfoca on Tuntvess|
mun prineipl cosmogenic nic
Fe: meméeie-ocpleneafe Ie taanisn
ria coma fuba
plimitzacié, atinament _|__
1a perfeccié —_[ fora”: el temps ciclic previ al temps]
toxic; ele les collites, tote. que |
eu es veld des de la finesa. ol
femps de 1a naluralesa, Yunte rlatge!
je Tetisiancia del qual lenim.ce
[nds enlld de les nostres ments,
enti tanta necessiat, —
eguiament per conics! cmb les |
“Geceleracions que ta tecniticacis vet |
onsum han inledult.¢la-vida dels
mer, producte a 1a vagada de tol
jos processor. tha tame, per ion,
mnomps ciete que les teeniques |
tivat, un aire proces, ata |
| “frrncostament anita las tecniquas dal
fa biologia ae Tarauitectuca com.
worsible
clals de la
gine un principi,
|
{
rocessos.
‘un voler ser liquen. molsa. arbre
ucbeit,
Fascinats exciusivament per a
lesa de les formes complexes i —_|
Js dleatoris processos formatiu
cats digitalment c¢
giving them one form of
-ontent or another, organising them
one system or another, rejecting
ie the xe
-p1 memory (we might |
saying that ‘a
zasents the teleological
modern positivisms. Itis,as—_|
noted above. energy. or. rather.
join De la Sota
[fechas acerioganinince-| pr chageetm at th {fi ac cn
| to. hand them back to society in the xrchitecture’ niques revisit -cording to the first laws of physics _|
anstruction of a vision: light-weight, chitecture_ activating retroactiy put, tor Prygogine, a pure principle —_|
ee ee ee
| bplion that seeks less ‘eternity: in|
sxchange for greater ease and less
suffering. the 1eplacement of physical |
\y intellectual effort. and of the future|
the present—_ -
fechniques do not stand sli; each,
present has only a limited series of _|
yhom (the succession of series in time
for an impossiblg inc
.ew what they aver
2: post-modgn
‘but wnen techniques seek not to__ a
hmitate but to. explore
|__without.exploting tho:
¢ past that were unimaginable in
hi phenome
‘one of these is fiat the search ___
‘or geological: that which unifies the
sence (they___|__natural, the exact and the social
joing. in those__|_ciences, placing us in « theoretically |
ror, in a word, single cosmogonic universe.__|
jackward-looking memory. technique |
i plesent, energy as entropic fulu
-- optimisation, fine-tuning of the
‘exchanges between nature and
jell fields, but
e potentials of
[~[ted foe called evolution) added | —}neirday. when dex. qneigy opens | —ftiliee, progressive elimination |
[ jo which they all move in ditterent__|___up new dimensidas, then the azzows_| 1 dissolution of differences. _
[“Jemporat atrections, uniting. with prime ate inverled aha oxating fartlittion.ot pracessaainin—|
inet approaches to cachitectara imultaneoutly if several aections, | —onstelation of zrows and points thal
fo form an cliance thet polaises project cppenrs ihe process. situes the ime ot architecture.
-lime's arrows in multiple directions.
Jact st could even he said that
cnitectures at
Lit we dic not
jesigning and ploject
sow is inverted) and)
|___}twould be impossible to speck of __|__ ery least to permet
the forward 9.
\g-forward, the | __land technique would not be compiete|
laspizes at the jthout the most basic vector, the tirst |
fe-cichitecure._|___that humankind observed as they sal
1 .d watched what was hi
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242020jue a 1a técnica només hi correspon,
-{in nic vecior- ens foznem tecndcrates
per tant gent perillosa. sense grutx,
;nidimensionals. Pensar la tecnica.
wwul no pot ser igual.a.com ho van |
—— fer els moderns, sind que é:un
rocés. de proliferacié. d'extoliacié.de.
jomps_un instrument de multiplicacié.
experiencia ide revisié de
‘experiéncia. oe
sor tol aixé pot explicar.se_|
| __ imidament o exempliticar-se. amb.
Iguns treballs que estem fent. Amb.
|___Peter Halley vam decidir sestituix
de lps tecniques _|_els mateixos programes de dibuix com|
igitals va mo jes Uumitacions _programes de fabricacié, de manert
—hradicionals de ecié seriada_| _que vobria una gamma Infinit
je paper i ens va perinetre usar fins a.
4 mostres diferehts 1
repetici6, dem:
roduint paper pinta
introduir varietat.
| que estavem.
Lalmatesx
ossibilitats al tradicional mosaic___|
yomé.o portugues. Tots dos processos,
paper pintat i els mosaics,no-se'ns |
sscapa. estiren enrere iendavant |
temps alguna co}
‘Be sortir, de treufe-el
rranstormada en|vinil
‘vam treballar anjb Albert Oehlen en
|un paviment capag-de-donar una
hova qualitat {dentifat a Yespat_—__
A vista, capac
spa exterior,
adhesin. Quan.
jablic. contemporani,
rimer a fer moshics
pensar__|__
spirats ena |
1c fietxa del temps. Pero també_|
Ppatmeten-snuoduitunc. forma ditetent/
‘entendre 1a qualitat. abans només
lassociada a !homogeneitat1a__
~fprecisi6 i el valor dels materials, ara_|
fomnada «.un loc on durant segles es |
a estendre: 'ornament, de bell not
beactivat. £1 nostre primer disse:
industrial, e1 Xurret, utilitza una
[geometric orgénica. més obscenat
scatolégica que.no pas cibernética, |
st propiciar altres formes ais 1
bn.un.arabesc com en la fabricacié.
.@_atmosiexa evacadora de le jo. de Janeizo) |
___hraaicional, aensa, propia de les sales! cromatica,
|__bte tecture de biblioteques i catés Emig
[ ‘eproposant Ja técnica, bona, bonica, 16s matet
_parata i atractivament inoportuna. lelaboracié de mosaics pixelats
jel paper pintat com a estratagic rme|re modifica: |
ocupacié espacial. Tant en el procés jcacié.de les |
lie transtormacié del text de Borges fatbtrawa. com un|
;proplacié del'espai public. £s.un_
public. que es planteja ocupar_|
lespaciaiment tlocs sense grans__|
ropistats.o qualitats, com també.
sconsiderar l'ergonomia moderna, _|
‘out there’: the time prior i
— hat here is a single vector to
isiorical time; the time of harvests,
ryihing that can be.or ever was
~feen though the window. the tne of
tre, the only flock wos oistencel
canbe sured boyd a oh,
— find tt lcd weft ston
(feed t, probably as & contrast tothe |
Gecelsation ha{ioctnfcation and
jechnique, we become technocrats
lind therefore dangerous, one:
limensional people with no depth,
‘cannot think of technique today
1s the modems did: instead we
{nould approach it.as a process of
roliferation, of exfoliation of times, |
instrument for the multiplication
‘consumption have intfoduced into.
‘people's lives, th profluct in turn of
land the revision of experience.
verhaps all of this can be tentatively
both of these processes. There is also,
then. a cyclical time that techniques
process. the__|
ssolved in eneigy bht a desire tobe,
ichen, moss... -a.leukocyte._|
in our exclusive fascination with.
.e beauty of digitally genezated_
lex forms and random formative |
recesses, we make the tremendous
__Inistake of the modems: we believe!
niques of Wecided to return to an_atmosphere
sxplained or exemplified by some of __
the projects we have been working —_
mn ecently. With Peter Halley. we |
|
nat evokes the traditional, intense —
{mosphere of library reading.
\d caiés, seinsiating the good, |
.eap, cheerful and attractively —_—_|
.chnique.of. wallpaper as.
‘strategy for spatial occupation. Both_|
| in the process of transforming the
Borges tex into.an crabesque.and in|
| imenutacturing tne product. tne use|
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A: Tfiaki Abalos—bt digital techniques moaitied the |
{raditional limitations of wallpaper
mass production, allowing us to use
‘os many as 64 different patterns and
introducing variety and repetition. we.
were therefore producing wallpaper
‘Gnd, at the same time, something
never betore seen, capable of going
pul there, coming out into the open,
fansformed into adhesive vinyl.
When we worked with Albert Oehlen
n.a form of paving capable ot
bndowing the contemporary public
space with «new quality and
{enue we thought about producing
josaiics, first based on Portuguese.
bobbiestones (Rio de Janeiro)
‘and then on a chromatic range
of concrete setts (Barcelona). The
process of creating digitally pixelated
mosaics enabled us to modify the
Conditions of sett production, and
hat had promised to be a process
bf cratismanship then began to use|
Ine actual drawing niograms ir
production, feng the ational
oman or Porlughete mosaic an
{ntinite range of possbilis. The fact|
that both procesies. or wallpaper
fand for morates [draw ne arrow of
[ime backwards and forwards hes
fat escaped oie Auer ak.
erve fo Intioduch a alifetent way
Gtundessicnding quality fommesty
[eszociated onty withthe homogeneity
recision and vajue of he mates,
‘and now. ‘ce to @ place it
becupled for ceafuries: omamen.
how reactivated |Our fist industria
Lesion ina Xu anplogad.an
roan geome. mote obecone
cessation han poms
Bring about othe forme of use and
appropriation ofthe public space
This public Hench designed
spatially fo occupy places with no
fuistanding properties or quaities
land to zeconsder excpstvely naiow
‘correct modem ergonomics. It seeks
fo-continate tone definition of max
pen. deregulated, provocative public
spaces. To this end, it plays both on
the charm of complex forms and on
ew manufacturing procedures made
possible by the digital modelling of
fommwork and moulds. A combination
fof many references to the visual
farts and to architecture, it is also
‘q system that imitates plumbing
‘systems, with five different pieces
‘hat fit together to create countless
‘configurations. The fibrous or veined
jexture plays the added role of tactile
Lttraction, presenting relief rather
than the traditional casting or bas-
{ollet of concrete, the manutacture
‘and modelling of which called for
‘the intervention of « parametric.
design specialist (Marta Malé), as all
the pieces have to fit together and
‘adopt natural, fluid configurations,
‘by no means easy to achieve. In the
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MANSHIP_AND CONSTRUCTED NATUwnecta. Tracta de | en é res. Enel disseny inicial, en la
\definicié d'espais___fabricacié de motlles i prototips.en_
pés oberis i
1x6 juga tant amb | _ta digitalitzacié ha permés acceair |
r Noes, tigures | sist pans
)shavien experimentat mal. perd,
jerts per ja modelacié | stot ens ha permés introduir
{si motiles. Punt ___|__temporatitats superposades i
| de trobada de moles reterencies a
‘—plastiques 1 arguitectoniques—. és
aay st imitaels del tradicional com un bane de formigé
jontaner, amb cine peces diterents__ la vegada una forma dentendze el
nllacen 1 donen contiguracions|__mobiliati aliena als cunons modems, _
finites. E tes peces Ic tex! \questa: multiplicacié i proliteracié és
| tprosa.o venosarhii juga.un paper__ Ja técnica. que ens interessa perque
special, datract ss Tunica que no.ens atrapa en la—_|
cid unidimensional cap alle
| que és nou, siné que ens permet
ta fabricacié t mbdeldcié det qual__|__ incloure el digital iel natural en. una
—ficseclamat tans especiales | ova crtesania digital. una.naea |
seny parametiitzat (Marta Malé), | __xarxa d'interessos que constmeix —_
ja que shavien d'acoblar totes les __V'arquitectura iel paisaige que aval
2 contiguract r sdem desitiar. =
aixodesenillne
| niti design, in the manwiacture - |
pt moulds and prototypes, in th i t -
[—ontquration of ine omamentati ——t —
Aigitalisation gave us accoss 1 iZ
|__ hitherto unexplored places, tig! -
| ——fand systems, but most of ail it has a |
| enabled us to intiod! a = -
‘and contrasting t ut - —
imost primitive organic image in - =
thing as conventional as.a_ —— —
te bench and, at th TT -
i 'y of understanding furnit =
| tat breaks away trom modern 7 =
This multiplication and_
q
—Anterests us bi situs the onl —
‘one that, rather than entrapping
|| ing one-dimensional fascination
| Wwith the new. enables us to bring ||
| together the digital and the naturan—_|___
in a new digital craftsmanshiy -
(| network of interests that constructs tne!
chitecture and the landscape that [
and ire to tod load
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