SYMBIOTIC ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE AND HEALTH
“buildings will be altogether hermetically closed, the use of air in the rooms being provided for by the closed air circuits mentioned above. Windows will no longer be needed on the facades; consequently, neither dust nor flies nor mosquitoes will enter the houses; nor will noise. Experiments on the absorption of sound, especially in the buildings of steel and reinforced concrete, must be pursued!”
“The cities can be rescued from the threat of air warfare”
“Every country builds its houses in response to its climate. At this moment of general diffusion, of international scientific techniques, I propose: only one house for all countries, the house of exact breathing.”
“wet, humid ground where disease breeds”
Le Corbusier, Radiant City (1930)
“The Larkin administration building was a simple cliff of brick hermetically sealed (one of the first ‘air-conditioned’ buildings in the country) to keep the interior space clear of the poisonous gases in the smoke from the New York Central trains that puffed along beside it.”
“Industrialization and the rapid rise of the automobile created unprecedented pollution and noise, resulting in an obsession with sealing out environmental pollution. With the rise of air conditioning, the age of the hermetic seal would call for an interior environment maintained at a perfect 72 degrees Fahrenheit, all year round“ Rem Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture
“The inoperable windows that created this atmosphere of comfort were intended not only to keep the weather out, buit also to seal regulated air in. Because employees are not reliable guardians of the air-conditioned office, the architecture took control for them, making inoperable windows a norm” Pietro Belluschi, on the Portland Equitable Savings and Loan Building (right)
“The immune system has the fearsome force of a disciplined military unit. Its scouts patrol the body, ever vigilant; when they see signs of foreign incursions they respond promptly and with proper ferocity.” The Economist, 1993
RESEARCH
Water-Monitoring Clams in Poznan, Poland
MICROBIOME
PLATE 1
PLATE 2
PLATE 3
PLATE 4
WOOD
METAL
PLASTIC
OTHER
WOOD HOUSE
PLYWOOD SHEETS
sampling site
WOOD TABLE
OSB WALL
ALUMINUM BLOCK
CANVAS EDGE
CINDER BLOCK Microbial floor plan
PLANER
BIRDS PRECEDENT
BIRD WALL ELEVATION
dovecote in Siwa, Egypt.
Bird brick detail above, and mockup below.
STRATEGY DIAGRAMS
STANDARD WALL - 8”
EXPAND WALL
OVERLAY GRID BIRD WALL AXON
APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS WEST END GREENHOUSE
SITE PLAN , BIG MAP
WEST END SITE
SITE PLAN , SMALL MAP SITE COMMUNITY GARDENS INDUSTRIAL / MANUFACTURING FULL SERVICE GROCERY STORES
WEST END COMMUNITY GARDEN
BENKEL GREENHOUSE
AXON INTERIORS
AXON - INTERIOR FLOORS
PLAN - FIRST FLOOR
SECTION 01 - SYSTEMS INTERACTIONS
SECTION - DAYTIME
PLAN - TOP FLOOR