> manifesto
> alexiares bayo. architecture & well-being. eca 2010 .
I'm asked to write about intentions; about my architectural intentions in proposing an architectural experience in a specific place. I have pieces of thoughts, fragments of an entire story that i do not know how to tell. so let's just write down that, let's write an architectural story made up by fragments . let's make a little book which will really be a collage. let's play cards, cutting out chapters apparently disconnected and sticking them again with the glue of my intention. some of them will be specific, others more poetic. some of them will be completely banal, and others will be deep as the ocean; but all of them will make up my architectural manifesto. all this 'chapters', little stories themselves, will act together as the blinds in the painting on the left, so strongly connected by the specific meaning written at the bottom that each one will need the others to acquire significance and, if some of them falls, all of them will also fall.
> ON INTENTIONS.
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The citizens of leith got up of bed that morning with a deafening
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what on the hell had that EXPLOSION
been?? Some of them looked through their windows and realized that something had changed forever...
> THE ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL BE P
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leith seen as rhizome as a net of interconnected nodes architecture should answer to that integrating in the net use all its potential to develop.
PROPOSE D WILL FACE UP TO AN UNSETTLED, COMPLEX PLACE, A RHIZOME MADE UP OF PLENTY OF INT ERCONNEC
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children's games, pieter brueghel. 1560
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he shining of the explosion had blinded them in the way that they were not able anymore to process the path they were walking through. They were a mass in which it was not possible to recognize a beginning or an end. Reality had stop having an only point of view, in order to became a prism with multiple sides, a multiplicity of singularities that made up an infinite canvas.
CTED NODES, A PLACE WHERE ONE CAN NOT DETERMINE ANY CENTER, A MULTIPLICITY OF SINGULARITIES. WE W
WILL HAVE TO ACT CONSEQUENTLY, PROPOSING A HYBRID BUILDING WHERE THE WORD HIERARCHY HAVE NO REAL
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¿un edificio? varios edificios un lugar que condense la actividad social la función única está muerta viva la mezcla una pieza compleja articulada viva un trozo de la vida real congelada un collage de realidades un espacio mil espacios un lugar donde todo sea posible complejo pero a la vez tan natural que será casi automático sólo habrá que construir el edificio de la misma forma que construimos la ciudad será un edificio que quiere ser ciudad para una ciudad que quiere ser edificio un híbrido
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e are talking about provoking the unexpected, invoking the unexpected. We are talking about a black swan , those sort of rarity that contradict the regulations in force and completely revolutionize the point of view. Yes, actually we were always talking about revolutionizing the point of view...
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TATIC FUNCTION CONTAIN ER, IT MUST BE SOMETHING UNEXPECTED , THAT INEVITABLY CHANGES THE CONDITION S
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S OF THE PLACE, BUT GRAFTING IN IT WITH THE PRECISION OF A SURGEON IMPLANTING A HIP PROSTHESIS.
Š alexiares bayo, 2010.