BIOLOGICAL APPARATUS NO.1
Biodiversity is the
degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or
an entire planet. However nature is not so idyllic in its becoming as E.
Gittenberger states “The current biodiversity is the result of a very
irregular, in principle an unpredictable evolutionary process, characterized by
numerous consecutive extreme asymmetric developments”. Next to our role as
humans of safeguarding, monitoring and/or managing a healthy biodiversity we
should have a more profound relationship with nature which is not only based on
mimicry. According to Slavoj Zizek, to begin dealing with the immense reality
of obsolete matter that is calculated to conceal our world, we need more
artificiality and less nature.
By embracing the idea of artificiality we come to realize that we generate an
artificial living environment that is more a biological apparatus. With this
duality in mind I designed a Living Cube with a Green House on top. The
interrelation between the Living Cube and the Green House form a synthetic
environment in which production and consumption are locally in a
perpetual exchange. The Green House has the following functions: it generates
energy through solar panels, the accumulate heat is storaged and re-used, the
hot air keeps the airflow in the air shaft moving, it contains rainwater
storage, it provides food, it can re-use the biological waste generated by the
house-hold, it’s a place of leisure.
By embracing the idea of artificiality we come to realize that we generate an artificial living environment that is more a biological apparatus. With this duality in mind I designed a Living Cube with a Green House on top. The interrelation between the Living Cube and the Green House form a synthetic environment in which production and consumption are locally in a perpetual exchange. The Green House has the following functions: it generates energy through solar panels, the accumulate heat is storaged and re-used, the hot air keeps the airflow in the air shaft moving, it contains rainwater storage, it provides food, it can re-use the biological waste generated by the house-hold, it’s a place of leisure.
