A 22nd Century Cabinet of Curiosities for Architects
THE HI-TECH WUNDERKAMMER
2016 - 2017
The accompanying architectural thesis extrapolates near future technologies and urban ideas in the context of Peter Baufu’s ‘Eight Great Future [post-human] Transformations Of Architecture’ into programmatic, tectonic and environmental agendas for Platinum City. Through a unique process of emancipatory, generative design research, a new post human architectural language is born within the architect’s ‘Hi – Tech Wunderkammer’ through the systematic 3D scanning of computer componentry, with its resulting collection of 3D printed curiosities given scale and hierarchy in context to one another within a virtual reality environment.
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As a consequence, Platinum City overlays these bio-mechanical characters with narrative and embodies them within its urban fabric which exists somewhere between a pristinely manicured garden and a well-oiled machine.
