Architecture Portfolio 2020-21 by Siddharth Hosamath

SIDDHARTH HOSAMATH M.ARCH II

2020- 2021

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SIDDHARTH HOSAMATH

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE M.ARCH 2

SIDDHARTH HOSAMATH

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Currently pursuing Masters of .Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture |SCI’Arc | ,Los Angeles , California , 2020- 2022.

Email: siddharth.hosamath@gmail.com LinkedIn : linkedin.com/in/siddharthhosamath

Bachelor of Architecture, BMS School of Architecture |BMSSA| ,Bangalore ,Karnataka , India , 2015- 2020.

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Winter School THE UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE “Cross Cultural Design in Architecture” , 2018 JULY.

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Experience Architect Intern, Kulkarni Aug-Dec 2019

Hard Skills RHINO MAYA ZBRUSH UNREAL ENGINE AUTOCAD PHOTOSHOP SKETCHUP LUMION TWINMOTION V-RAY INDESIGN MS OFFICE

Associates, Bangalore

Worked on projects like State bank of India , branches in Bangalore, three apartment projects, as well as a campus design. This included Designing , site visits , contract and tender drafts , client meetings. Part of a 5 member team worked on designing a government aided school, in Karnataka, India.

Freelance Architect , Bangalore Dec 2019 - Aug 2020

Worked on housing projects and interior renovations, and received client commendations for efficient design.

Seminars & Workshops

Soft Skills

• D e s i g n wo rks h o p by A r. Kevi n M a rk Low • Co m pa ra t i ve S u s t a i n a b l e M a s te r P l a n M e t ri c s by A r. A l i s o n Pe te rs • Wo o d C ra f t i n g wo rks h o p by B ra m Wo o d c ra f t i n g S t u d i o • M E T H O D O LO G I E S O F B E AUTY BY. A N N E FA I R FAX & R I C H A R D S A M M AO N S • TYR A N N Y O F S M A L L d e c i s i o n BY C H I T R A VI S HWA N AT H • Ta l k by F R A N C I S . D. K .C H I N G -1 5 t h S E PT 201 8

Communication

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Collaboration Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving

Rubens trophy - Annual NASA convention 2016 HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited) trophyAnnual NASA convention 2016 Landscape trophy- Annual NASA convention 2019

Po s it io n s o f Res p o n s ib ility GOVERNING BODY | NASA (National Association of Students ofArchitecture)| BMSSA

2015 - 2019

TROPHY COORDINATOR | Zonal NASA & annual NASA conventions |BMSSA 2017 - 2018 Photography club | HEAD coordinator |BMSSA

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2017 - 2019

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STATEMENT ಸಿದ್ಧಾರ್ಥ್ Hosamath is and architectural designer , currently based in Los Angeles, pursuing his passion in architectural design and critical thinking at SCI’Arc. He earned his bachelor’s degree during the peak of the pandemic at BMSSA, Bangalore in 2020. His interest in architecture came by accidentally changing his career path. A boon in disguise. Effectively with contemporary and futuristic architecture deepening his thought to explore the field. Siddharth’s architectural work has evolved regularly throughout his career. He believes that the only thing which is constant is change, and this change through critical thinking and experiences of Architecture and design. Learning new and innovative ideas to travers the art tech craft world (Architecture world).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 008 2GAX OVER THE HEDGE 2GAX Design Studio1

024 AS3200 META(L)-TIMBER

2GAX Advanced Tectonics & Materials

036 VS4200 SUN GLOW 2GAX Visual Studies

048 HT2200 MULTI-SCREEN ARCHITECTURE 2GAX Theories of Contemporary Architecture

052 2GBX OUTRE’ POLYPHONY 2GBX Design Studio 2

070 VS4201 SCI’nescure 2GBX Visual Studies

082 HT2201 CESSATION OF ENVIRONMENTS 2GBX Theories of Contemporary Architecture

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OVER THE HEDGE

The studio took the direction of changing the classroom and its core function considering the pandemic. The need to bridge the outdoor and indoors was core to achieve the projects aim. The project was augmented following the Ray and Charles Eames Power of Ten method. My ideation is architecture of nature and the hedge is the medium. The hedge is a defined structure or shape which has a synthesis of nature & geometric qualities of synthetic landscapes. The materiality is explored through a natural direction of nature and synthetic landscape. The classroom grows out of her labyrinth of edges to form spaces and enclosures. In the studio an emphasis on the blurring the lines between outdoor and indoor.

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2GAX DESIGN STUDIO 1

FLORENCIA PITA FA2020

Built spaces and landscape as seen through these nature driven walls. For the enclosure of the roof a precedent from an English greenhouse exploring the transparency yet defining structure. The classrooms made of hedges takes an organic direction in growth the large gathering spaces are covered with a more rigid chain mesh roof when compared to the frosted classroom roofs. The circulation between classes is blurred with the hedges and the synthetic landscape. The school classes are taught outdoor virtual and connect with each other and blur , complexity of outdoor indoor spaces.

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Furniture exploration through different mediums and materiality was explored in the studio where nature and synthetic materials were combined.

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Exploring the blurring of lines between indoor and outdoor was inspired by the transparency of an English Garden through its pellucid glass structure.

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View beetween classrooms and park

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Chainmesh roofing structure.

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The goal of the studio was to explore different types of activities to be integrated seamlessly and blurred lines. The synthetic landscape through outdoor play areas and the complexity of the indoor spaces are seen in plan here.

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META(L)-TIMBER

2GAX ADVANCED TECTONICS & MATERIALS SOPHIE AKOURY JURE ZIBRET DHEER TALREJA

MAXI SPINA RANDY JEFFERSON

This tectonic class is divide into two parts there in the first part consist of a deep research to identify the main details that defined a facade’s system. We were interested in timber structures and explored the Shigeru Ban’s Nine Bridges Country club. A deep understanding of the tectonic system was explored through research & 3-D modelling. The country club is made up of three buildings which encompasses different structural systems present in a more modern sense through traditional materials like wood and glass. Materiality of the joints and facade system was explored. Shigeru Ban’s approach to the facade design consisted of solid sustainable wood columns which was parametrically visualised.

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After after having explore fully Shigeru Ban’s Nine Bridges Country club and how are the structural and tectonic design strategies worked harmoniously to create structure, we choose the Novartis building by Frank Gehry, to further expand on the tectonics of building technology. The challenge was to combine the timber structure of the steel and glass envelope where elements of the Novartis building for both facade and the roof of Nine Bridges. The dynamic facade to our wooden columns where created a new tectonic element that would be sound both structurally and formally. The diagonal metallic mullions of the Novartis harmonise well with the hexagon and Timber grid of the club.

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SUNGLOW

2GAX VISUAL STUDIES SOPHIE AKOURY

WILLIAM VIRGIL FA2020

In this day and age where a role as architects and highlighting societal issues and how design can be used for political change? Few shoes have come to presidents in the past few months the way Police brutality has. The Black lives matter movement after the unlawful death of many heroes make us question the role Society plays in our lives.

towards all sexual orientations embracing the LGBTQ+ where LOVE IS LOVE. Our billboard aims to stand as a monument to the world in which equality once existed.

Sunglow acts on the current world circumstances and helps represent the community of colour.A billboard normally benefits the capitalist and it’s made for the consumer public but here we engage the user or the viewer about the importance of societal causes tackling the issue of activism in a visual form.

The billboards were inspired by Barry Jenkin’s masterpiece Moonlight. It’s a true ratification of the life of a young man of colour trying to exploring his true identity. The identity of male and female are blurred by using the typical colours blue and pink and morphing them to shades of purple which is a mix of the two. This reflects the true meaning of freedom.

Sunglow speaks about the aim and support

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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X

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View of the Billboards.

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The glowing hearts symbolise the unity amongst all. Our love and support to everyone and respecting each other.

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MULTI-SCREEN ARCHITECTURE

2GAX THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

JOHN COOPER ERIC GHENOIU FA2020

Image. Photograph. Drawing. In this day and age we have come to a point where consumption of data feels like breathing. There is no differentiation between an image photograph or a drawing, everything is absorbed as images from digital screens. The line has been blurring between reality and the digital world. Orthography is geometric gesturing with mechanical aids; sketching, drafting, all bound by the limits of the frame, here the ends of the canvas or sheet of paper. Photograph is another form of heliography, a chemomechanical visual format, geometrically composed through the viewfinder of a camera; to be developed on piece of paper which frames it. Image , capturing energy emitted by the environment and converting into measurable electrical charges , which are processed into

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data and depicted on the screen; a framed image, composed by the bounds of the digital display. The very notion of data produced and consumed changed when an image was born. Eames took advantage of this technology to create the multi screen. The world of the postorthography. Electrical images displayed on screens to show various scenes of real life in a manner where one is glued on to the screen. The nature of theses screens is such that they depict images which appear to be 3 dimension, but in true sense only 2.5D , as its only. On a flat surface. As architects we use various softwares to visualise , the form and design, trying to grasp actual 3 dimensional

PRESENT DAY MULTISCREEN BEDROOM aspects through the flat surface of a screen. It definitely helps on understand the simulation, but never truly sees it in its true form of physical dimensions. The image surrounds us, everywhere today, our phones, the computer screens, the display boards, televisions, smart watches, even car keys. Distraction. There are images flooding our space , in every corner, a way to keep one engaged through distraction. Emeses learnt about grabbing a persons attention with simultaneous images being streamed rapidly through the screen. The workings of multimedia and data thrown at us is not new, but just increased significantly from the mission control room of WWII. Monitors side by side projecting information rapidly to aid the military officers to

analyse the situation. The virtues of the screen and its role in producing images has been the same over time. Eames 1959 American exhibition in Moscow, was not the first time dealing with multiscreen architecture, but the pavilion had a very new method of depiction of information. 20by30 foot seven screens in a geodesic dome, with 2200+ still and moving images projected, kept the people in a state of controlled distraction. Engaging the mind to look at different incidents of “a typical weekend day” all within 9 minutes. Today it may seem like it’s not much , but it was definitely the beginning.

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The space created by Eames was not just dome filled with suspended screens but a space defined by the screens inside the space of the dome. This multiscreen reality has developed and evolved into our bedrooms. Our computer screens, phone screens , televisions , the internet to feed them with information and due to the pandemic, the camera and lights , with all the wires rolling down the table. As Beatriz Colomina says it’s a hyperviewing mechanism. We sit in our ergonomic chairs staring at the computer screen, which has multiple screens in-itself. Jumping from zoom with seeing people virtually , to digital modelling softwares to consuming data through videos and images from the internet. The life of humans has evolved or rather pushed towards this type of sedentary lifestyle, all because of the development of computer technology. lifestyle, all because of the development of computer technology. The idea of multiscreen Architecture was not only still images or moving images but also the lighting and the sound, even to the extent when Alexander Girard used synthetic odours to be fed into the auditorium air conditioning enhance the experience of the user. The war room where multimedia presentations were continuously updated from all over , the present day bedroom multiscreen space is no different , using the internet to gather information from numerous sources. Its a wall of parallel projected images with information from everywhere. The aspect of communicating with others has just

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become more streamlined by the internet. Eameses fundamentally wanted people to consume data through digital imaging. Distracting the mind to look at images from instances of the world through the bounds of a screen, to cram in maximum information in a short time. Journalists speak of too many images, too much information, too fast. For the MTV and the Internet generation watching the film today, it would not be fast enough, and yet we do not seem to have come that far either the logic of the Internet that is already spelled out in. The multiscreen bedroom environment shows that there are multiple ways and devices to access and analyse images if not singularly but simultaneously through the different screens on our different devices placed on the table. Assembling the gathered information and sharing on these screens which are in our control. Though Eames pavilion had people looking at images with no control to stop or search their desired information , the reader navigates through the space of the screens to choose what particular story they want to watch from the seven screens. The consumer is actively participates in the space created by the screens.

We now have control at our fingertips, controlling the screen , yet always distracted by them. “The eye cannot escape the screens and each screen is bordered by other screens”. The space in the bedroom is not only bound by the four walls but it is also between the screens on the desk , which is defined by the user actively throughout the day, a space of not only multiscreen but of multifunction. Eameses films and multiscreen performances changed the style of architecture the highly controlled flows of simultaneous images provided a space, an enclosure – the kind of space we now occupy continuously without thinking.

2.5D or 3D?? We are looking at a screen.i.e, is again a 2 dimension object displaying the image, which may look like 3D but its real identity is is just 2D.

The flow of images from on screen to another one device to another, our vision jumping from one screen to another distracted by the large amounts of data being thrown at us , all in the space of the bedroom.

Bibliography John May. “Everything Is Already an Image.” Log 40, Anyone Corporation, July 2017. Colomina Beatriz Information obsession: the Eameses’ multiscreen architecture.

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Bibliography

John May. “Everything Is Already an Image.” Log 40, Anyone Corporation, July 2017. Colomina Beatriz Information obsession: the Eameses’ multiscreen architecture.

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OUTRÉ POLYPHONY “HARMONY PROJECT”

2GBX DESIGN STUDIO 2

RAMIRO DIAZ GRANADOS SP2021

Outré Polyphony takes on the Harmony Project music school as a simultaneous conglomerate of nature and nature driven artificiality.

The school expands on the underlying aspects of nature while being supported by man-made objects.

Forming a harmonic relationship amongst nature and created nature.

Building a cohesion between the different forms and attitudes of these fragments of nature takes my project in the direction of dominance by these entities towards the human.

Hierarchy given to nature whilst maintaining human intervention and its intensity. The polyphonies of nature’s fragments held together by human intercession. Agglomerated, this Polyphony no more depends on the human to thrive and the relationship lawyers with time.

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The contours assemble around a pivotal axis forming a central courtyard access to the classrooms. The valley like space serves as a means of performance area.

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The polyphonic relationship between the grids, contours and terrain.

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Volumes containing the theatres and performance spaces is carved into the terrain making an important hierarchy between them, where dominance is seen through the spatial organisation.

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SCI’nescure “Arrangements” by Andrea Cadioli

2GAX VISUAL STUDIES

ANDREA CADIOLI SP2021

In French the noun “arrangement” both defines the arrangement of objects and the agreement of parts. Special organisations and power structures collapse in a single instance where one defines the other and vice versa. A generated arrangement with objects of organic inorganic an ideal objects. The precedent comes from Max Hooper Schneider’s composition, which is developed in organically where is symbiosis and hierarchies are explored. Arrangement aims at the creation of trance habitats temporal and physical spaces where organic and inorganic elements find a logic of distribution symbiosis and hierarchies starting from the understanding that nature is created as a process of ceaseless morphogenic modulations.

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From the composition of which was explored in the first half is later transformed into landscape surrounded by the generated ecology. Take on machine vision and procedural sounds which reverberate in the playground of the psychology where composition, inorganic and organic elements, are composed in digital realism. SCI’nescure is derived from science and obscure where, science helps us study systematically the behaviour oft he physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Obscure is not discovered or known about; uncertain. To find a balance between real and unreal digital and physical is crucial.

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SCI’nescure is a direction towards this unexplored curiosity of natural and digital where this exploration is of a generated ecology.

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A mutated take on the first exploration to create a new ecology. Material exploration where the surreal nature is processed.

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Blooming organic objects in sync with the unreal objects , polyphonically juxtaposed in a landscape.

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CESSATION OF ENVIRONMENTS

2GAX THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

MARCELYN GOW JOHN COOPER SP2021

Policies,

Practices,

Values.

These imaginary worlds or even the real ones have been continually ending through time, civilisations come to collapse, even the world as we knew it before the pandemic has ended. It brings about an opportunity to build and theorise new worlds, where a new kind of economic system , new energy , a new social order.

There are self generating worlds, an infinite realm in the digital space, all on a foundation of data, generating by us Sui generis. Seeing sensing and feeling, are what has made us think about these shifting digital horizons, social order, the current world another world, multiple worlds, and , an array of conversely ecologically dystopian worlds.

But it doesn’t mean the one we have now is perfect nor the one we idolise is too. Reza Negarestani argues on how humanity must orient itself to nature, as there are people who are climate change denilist, and post humanism, new materialism believers. Computational environments is where detecting and finding out about worlds ending is its main course.

There is a complete disarray of our current state of affairs what does one think about this world. How does humanity question itself , for its Policies (political), Practices (Human nature), Values (behavioural). Where does this world end? According to today’s human behaviour the world appears to be infinite , never-ending.

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The use of environmental sensors to detect and trace climate change is crucial to the survival of this world, or even to build a new one. Using digital sensing technologies endings are sensed. The various technologies and techniques used to perform these tasks help one understand the role of the computation , the way in which these incidentally shape the political policies and practices of humanity, by giving proof that its the human who is responsible for this world to be in its state of turmoil. Only because the human is highest in the chain of beings, doesn’t mean humans can dictate the fate of the world. It cannot be that “if humans die in the planet can die as well’ - Reza Negarestani 1, it’s a very wrong notion to think that the highest order of nature can dictate natures outcome.

The human nature, behaviour and denial to accept and all only a metaphysical register in the order of the being. The question is where does world ends specially through digital environmental sensing technologies tune to detect environmental change. Argo floats remote sensing satellites, wave buoys and ship sensors help understand and map ,the world strategically. According to Reza Negarestani , there are an overabundance of radical ontologies from new materialism to object oriented ontology does not replace collective human action to preserve Earth’s ecology.

1 Reza Negarestani ,Impending Eternal Turmoil, Potential Worlds , Planetary Memories & Eco-Fictions

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There is a false impression that political policies of humanity which will indirectly save this world, but one must think the attitude with regard to nature and how human practises and theoretical and practical cognition plays a huge role in human idea and it’s totality of its history. As a species the human is accountable to the worlds state, but historically the human species has always been in denial and there has unaccountability , and therefore humanity is the prime contributor to the destruction of the planet. Also due to the historical concept that humans built this world is a testament to the values them being accountable and a political animal and a technical builder all at the same time. Arguably the human sense of exceptionality of judgements about values and disvalues, oughts and ought-nots, he posses the power to decide his future. Because something already exists in this world doesn’t it’s permanent, even if social acceptance is established. The nihilist approach to the world where even a concept exist doesn’t mean its correct/right or provide justification for reasoning the world should end and a new one must be built with using computational data. In regards to a particular context where an alternativeless world , holds power to dictate and direct the existing world to change its Policies, Practises, Values , only to save it from going extinct. To achieve this one must change the existing Logics through technology , cultural production ,social acceptance and even human self acceptance.

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The world is always changing and ending, it’s a non-stop change where we rapidly evolve social technically and the evidence is seen through our daily practices. A single event in the social realm like the stock market influences the world drastically. The effects are in multitudes. During the late weeks of January 2021 , a Reddit community2 post triggered one of the largest inflation of a particular stock. The community post suggested users to buy “Game Stop”- stocks to boost its price in the market. This significantly increased the stock price and the company was climbing up to take a spot on the fortune 500 list. This in turn triggered crypto currency to have a more significant impact in the real world. Elon Musk tweeted that one can buy a Tesla vehicle with Bitcoin which is a crypto currency 3 . Social aspects like these influence technology and then latter, our community and its spaces. The infrastructure needs of the country changes by these aspects, for instance more electric cars moving on the streets equals more charging stations , in turn influencing the public space and its adaptation to this change in technology. Further continuing to contend about this, looking at sensing technologies and its capabilities to direct us in the field of architecture, looking at ocean sensing and its impact on detecting climate change, 2

Gamestonk!! https://t.co/RZtkDzAewJ

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sensor technologies to map worlds and analyse them, navigational technologies and techniques which help visualise virtual worlds through computation. Looking at Argo floats, remote sensing satellites and ocean sensors we can see that oceans have become a planetary sized plan which is mapped by these sensors. Looking at the data of the sensors where they detect salinity, temperature and movement of ocean currents bring to notice climate change patterns. This also brought up the fact that humans have been destroying the ecology by dumping waste into the ocean, they have become planetary-sized landfills. Plasticised the ocean , continually contributing to climate change.

These garbage patches in the ocean are massive in size and sometimes very hard to detect from satellite imagery, the composition of them are mostly smaller transparent plastics which are hard to detect. The fact that its unrecognisable to sensing has also made it ignorant to the political policies.” To what extent do environmental problems need to be visible in order to be actionable?” 4 There is also the puzzling fact that these methods themselves become a part of the problem of waste in the ocean. It again comes back to the fact that the human must decide and judge the true reality of the world, does it need to be rebuilt, does it need to be saved, does humanity cease 4

e-flux journal #101—summer2019 Jennifer Gabrys ,Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World

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to exist , the radical decision/decisions must be made to truly utilise these computational data to build new environments. Not only building them but also navigating through them. “Opening up the possibility for a radical departure from the certain kind of world” - Denise Ferreira da Silva, 5 . Where does this word end ? How do we use sensing technologies to overcome the process of rebuilding or saving this world? This is explored by particular practices in the daily world to analyse and construct habitations where these worlds are sensed to make them operational and the endings are passed through. These sensing technologies are not limited to sensors in the ocean or met data sensors, it can be various entities like a satellite in space, a handheld LIDAR scanner, the applications are only shortened by the human imagination. Using satellite imaging and data one can sense and create worlds with these open source data, these multiple layered data are used to compute our existing world and map them to make three dimensional digital objects , which are used to develop and expand the architecture realm. This way one can use simple yet effective computation to sense and build their own . worlds6

Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of

Blackness toward the End of the World,” The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2015): 85–86. 6

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Bibliography

Jenifer Gabrys : Sensing and Navigating the End of this World Patricia Reed : Making Ready for a Big World Making and Breaking. Reza Negarestani ,Impending Eternal Turmoil, Potential Worlds , Planetary Memories & Eco-Fictions Gamestonk!! https://t.co/RZtkDzAewJ h t t p s : / / t w i t t e r. c o m / e l o n m u s k / status/1374617643446063105?s=20 e-flux journal #101—summer2019 Jennifer Gabrys ,Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World

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