Aren't they members of the rhizomatic community?

Browsing the internet, I came by these photos, which might be considered as pure but hybrid members of the flock of creatures whom we might ever resemble to BLOBS.

Well, although defined by some as the ugliest creatures below the surface of the earth, I can see no uncommonality why we can't appropriate these creatures to architecture. I mean we hover arround "drawing" plans, sections, elevations, and sometimes we "build" 3d physical models and then with some money in the budget, we go into the 3d virtual simulation tools. But, let's face it, what we come out with "are" architectures that would never ever resemble any human need ( and i used here the term "are" instead of is to render the issue of eclecticism. You (of course I won't say me because by writing this blog I am confessing of the power of unti-ecclectisicm). You are manipulating pre-existing traits of architecture that once was considered unrecognizable in its times, and now you copy these traits and say "WE DEFINED BEAUTY". I say to you, you the architectural puppeteers, ENOUGH. Now it is time to stop thinking architecture, architecture of the traits, and start thinking Rhizometecture. Now it is time to evolve...





......Be proud to Deviate.....it's time to Instigate......Dictate your own Fate......You're about to Detonate......

PLEA_Passive and Low Energy Building in Beirut Central District

"We can’t breathe under water...but we can generate an Amphibian".

This was the title I choose for a passive and Low Energy Building in Beirut Central District. As an Architecture undergraduate student, I found it relevant now to participate in an international competition although knowing in advance that I might not get a chance having competitors from all over the world( Italy, London, US...to name some). The sole aim was to break the wall of Platonism and Cartesian Euclideanism in Forms and Form generation process even if this means designing a passive and sustainable and low energy building and even within strict building rules and regulations emposed on the competitors by Solidere( the constrcution company behind reconstructing beirut).

So being an architecture maniac, my proposal was to build an amphibian, a building that lives both inside and outside water( outside water as is the case of all buildings, and inside water due to the fact that beirut is a costal city always suceptible to heavy rains).

Now consider an amphibian, a smooth-skinned vertebrate, such as a frog or salamander, that characteristically hatches as an aquatic larva with gills. The larva then transforms into an adult having air-breathing lungs. We could, implementing high-end computer aided design and animation software, to not only design but also generate a Residential Amphibian; a building capable of literally breathing in summer and warming itself in winter adapting to the Lebanese ecological and environmental surrounding; hence maintaining a bottom-up approach in energy responsive architectural design.

contending the extensive use of technology in preserving our internal and external ecology hence environment, there is a potentiality of using technology, especially high end animation software as simulation and manipulation tools to help generate a building that might be once considered an Amphibian, adapting and abiding by the rules of the environment.

Anti_Positivistic Rhizometecture...

I thought I can't mention systemism without initiating you about the hidden confines of its assets. Positivism, a word/world depletedly used in the architectural field specifically, and in a cosmological scale applied to all precepts of life. We curently think, rationalizing reasonably, presuming of a born ability to perceive everything. Yet we encounter "X" things which we can't perceive, or do we? How could we admit that there are things that exist yet we can't be able to perceive in their enitrely. Then "X" things are not to exist in our world, but do they exist?
Here where I want to initiate my speculations about anti-positivism and the anti-positivistic architect/human being. We(positivistic adherances) highly accept the existence of the "X"-thing yet on the same hand we negate its feasablility. Then how could we perceive it?

To know speculations for unanswered iterations, Interact and converse to this post, to groove in an interface of anti-positivism.

On the verge of a shift...

On the verge of a new yet old paradigm, I hereby speculate of a post-systemism, a systemic paradigm that is subject not to philosophical humanitarian paranoia, but a systemic paradigm that renders constructivism as not only a theoretical tool but a practical implementation on the human being to satisfy his only being.