S U R V E I L L A N C E T O N A T U R E studio caruso // eth zurich
riggio luca // ugolini luca
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Analysis of
situation 2019 (pre Covid-19)
national emergency status (during Covid-19)
future tendencies (post Covid-19)
the field has eyes, the forest has ears unknown artist - 1546
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Onyx interception station Leuk (Switzerland)
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Analysis of
situation 2019 (pre Covid-19)
national emergency status (during Covid-19)
future tendencies (post Covid-19)
evaluatuion tracking-data during covid-19 crisis
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andover earth station, first direct relay communications satellite, 1961
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Analysis of
situation 2019 (pre Covid-19)
national emergency status (during Covid-19)
future tendencies (post Covid-19)
“Constrain[s] the convict to good behaviour… the worker to work … the patient to the observation of the regulations … he who is subjected to a field of visibility … becomes the principle of his own subjection” Foucault 1977
Bentham’s concept of the panopticon is used to present surveillance as an instrument through which people conduct their actions while aware of their own constant visibility. The idea of being constantly observed:
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panopticum sketch, jeremy bentham architect 1791
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Analysis of
public space & surveillance (pre Covid-19)
surveillance & architecture
virtual public space (during & post(?) Covid-19)
„public space is the space of social relationships (as against) private areas (spaces for contemplation and retreat).„ Lefebvre 1991
simplest, physical public space is space which is given over to public use. That is, within any city it is represented by those spaces, such as streets, squares, plazas, market places, theatres, malls, and railway stations, which are social to the extent that they can be occupied or used by more than the solitary individual and which exist outside of the spaces of work or domestic reproduction.
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Hauptbahnhof ZĂźrich 02.2020 (pre Covid-19)
Hauptbahnhof ZĂźrich 03.2020 (during Covid-19)
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Analysis of
public space & surveillance (pre Covid-19)
surveillance & architecture
virtual public space (during & post(?) Covid-19)
„a public space of steel and glass that seems to conform to Richard Sennett’s reading of the modern city space as -safe because it is empty-” about Richard Sennett (sociologist)
Such precise design of neutral space makes surveillance easy, but one often forgets the web of private and public cameras that capture every movement because “empty” space encourages easeful movement.
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webcam zurich 03.2020
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Analysis of
public space & surveillance (pre Covid-19)
surveillance & architecture
virtual public space (during & post(?) Covid-19)
„Addressing the extent to which contemporary screen culture and social media have become increasingly enmeshed with corporate and state-run surveillance technologies, I consider the ways in which Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series Black Mirror posits data-mining and “sousveillance” as processes of uncanny domestic architecture. By way of these technologies, the subject is depicted as “dwelling” within virtual realities constructed by streams of information culled from social media platforms and “smart” devices. That the materials for these architectures have been willingly generated by the subject suggests the internalisation of the panoptical eye, as well as an architecture of control existing neither inside nor outside traditional architecture but, more sinisterly, in topological and symbiotic collusion with it.“ Luke Reid, University of Montreal - About Surveillance, Sousveillance, and the Uncanny Domestic Architecture of Black Mirror (dystopian TV-Show)
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Gustave Doré, Die Überwachung, 1937
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S U R V E I L L A N C E T O N A T U R E studio caruso // eth zurich
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It was in this very place that a group of young compost makers decided to follow in the footsteps of like-minded New Gauley of Haraway and found a settlement called the Communities of Compost. Away from the screens, back to the senses. Moriyama was also taken as a model by many activists. No value judgement between rich and poor, and none between nature and urbanity. Many of his works are in one place, but tell 2 different stories.
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donna j. haraway, staying with the trouble
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daido moriyama
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HB as a mirror of society
Hauptbahnhof
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Highly controlled, monitored and secured
o commercial center • shops • events
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fake public space (seems public is private)
o regulation / restriction • restriction street musican (defined zone) • restriction homeless o architecture • linear, clear, tidy, efficient, cold • similar to sci-fi o
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HB as circulation-machine • No non-commercial sitting-areas
interventions: utopia idea at HB
Interventions o Infiltration of the existing HB-structure • sihl-tunnel • roof o
participative space (real public space) • (social) appropriation user and inhapitants • appropriation animals and plants
o ecological construction, sustainable design • ecological construction, vernacular architectur ecological material or recycling o equality of all species • co-existence/habitation (Haraway/Moriyama) o protection against surveillance • Community social control instead of state surveillance (Wagenplatz Basel) • de-digitization o Contrary to the state «surveillance» architecture • community typologie • Antipole to imperialist, absolutist, communist architecture (DDR / UDSSR) 19
infrastructure HB
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sihlforest - 20min away from the HB Under the tracks, in the tunnel of the river Sihl, which crosses the station, protected from prying eyes and state control mechanisms, we began to create a place that functioned according to our principles. The settlement flourished and the composters gained more and more acceptance in society. Slowly their presence spread to the roof of the main station and began to take root there. For the first few years, the children of the compost concentrated on building culture, economy, rituals, and politics.They tried to find a way in which nature, human and technology could work parallel and together. So they began to rediscover old, indigenous techniques of fish farming and agriculture and invented technical helpers that use energy in harmony with nature conservation and do not exploit resources.
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P L A N S
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U R B A N | A G R A R water resources / solar chemine
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Hi, I‘m Claudia. I used to work in the flower shop at HB, now I take care of the plants here on the roof. You‘re probably wondering what this structure is. It‘s the solar chimney of our aquaponics system. The nutrients excreted by the plants on the roof get into the fish tanks through pipes. There you feed the fish, whose excrement is used as fertilizer for the plants. The excrement is transported upwards in tanks by means of an Archimedes‘ screw driven by a Solar Chimey. This creates a closed sustainable cycle. A system which, in another form, was already known to the Mayas.
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B I R D S |
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staircase / nestside
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Bravo, you made it to the top. My name is Klara and this is our observation tower. I do the same as in my job at the Bahnhofshilfe: I help where I can. During the birds‘ breeding season we also sleep and live here. The heat from our bodies warms the birds‘ nests from below. The birds also appreciate this high location above the city. The building offers our plants the possibility to grow much higher.
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C A T A C O M B S fish farm / open space
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If you‘ve been to Claudia‘s, then you already know our aquaponics system. My name is Tabea and I‘m in charge of the fish farm. Now and then The fishes will be put out again. This way we help to repopulate the Sihl. The irony of it all is, a few years ago I worked in a clothing store at the HB and felt like a fish in an aquarium. Only that they did not take care of me that way.
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L I G H T S skylight / plant connection
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Over the years we have made openings between the different levels. These openings are designed to bring light into the dark tunnel and the platforms. I have noticed that animals and plants take advantage of these shortcuts.
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P L A T F O R M biotope / public space
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Hi, I‘m Mia. Did you hear how my music synced up with the sound of water? I‘m working on the music for our ritual. I often get company from a salamander who visits me. He lives here among the rocks. Also the mushrooms and some plants like our platform. I also like it better than the one between the tracks where I used to stand.
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U N C O N T R O L L E D
G R O W T H
human / nature / animals
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The kin-making work and play of the community-built capacities critical for resurgence and multispecies flourishing. In particular, friendship as a kin-making practice throughout life was elaborated and celebrated. The trains that left the HB helped the animals, people and plants to spread the ideology of the compostists. The train became a transport element of the uncontrolled growth. The HB is again a mirror of society, a society of nature.
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S Y M B I O S I S
animals plants human physics space matter time architecture
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In 2025, the community felt ready to birth their first new babies to be bonded with animal symbionts. The adult judged that most of their already-born children, who had helped found the community, were ready and eager to be older siblings to the coming symbiont youngsters. Everybody believed that this kind of sympoiesis had not been practiced anywhere on earth before. People knew it would not be simple to learn to live collectively in intimate and worldly caretaking symbiosis with another animal as a practice of repairing damaged places and making flourishing multispecies futures.
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human controlls nature
humus layer above the HB, human helps nature
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pollination, nature helps human
uncontrolled growth, nature equal human
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PinUp3 | 20200505 | FS20 | Studio Caruso | ETH Zürich Stud. Luca Riggio, Luca Ugolini
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