SUPER_CASE (E/MX : METAL ZOO)

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SUPER_CASE_05 - Eco/Mechs - E/MX.5

Jason Vigneri-Beane <jcvb@splitstudio.com>

Project Statement

ECO/MECHS : STATEMENT IN PROGRESS

SUPER_CASE - E/MX.5 : (Deployable Controlled Environment Module)

As a member of the E/MX METAL ZOO series, the SUPER_CASE - a deployable controlled environment module - is a speculation on distributed infrastructure and smart-modular architecture. This deployable unit could be conceived of as an individual in a network of architectural-infrastructural nodes. As the world moves toward concepts of distributed behavior models, collective intelligence and networked relationships it is important to think of architecture as being capable of participating in this shift. Architecture (and infrastructure) are, of course, conventionally associated with concepts of stasis, property, location, centralization and fixity. The question is whether or not it can jettison those forces of normalization and become more nimble, more innovative and more proactively engaged with the constant changes of its context(s). The SUPER_CASE, along with the other SDS, SDV, E/MX projects, proposes that architecture (and infrastructure) neither remain static nor become the fixed formalization of a dynamic system. Instead, it simultaneously becomes a member of a SWARM SETTLEMENT and a SWARM INFRASTRUCTURE. It is a networked-intelligent structure that can be deployed, drill into a site (and become temporary property) and responsively create controlled environments that sponsor small spatial occupation, surgical ecological remediation and micro-infrastructural resource harvesting.