SUPER_CELL (E/MX : METAL ZOO)

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SUPER_CELL - Eco/Mechs - E/MX.4

Jason Vigneri-Beane <jcvb@splitstudio.com>

Project Statement

ECO/MECHS : STATEMENT IN PROGRESS

SUPER_CELL - E/MX.4 : (Deployable Infrastructural Module)

As a member of the E/MX METAL ZOO series, the SUPER_CELL - a deployable infrastructural module - is a speculation on distributed infrastructure and smart-modular architecture. Like the SUPER_CASE 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. This stand-alone infrastructural node avoids the problems of infrastructural lock-in created by large-scale and long-term centralized planning conceived of at great expense and priveleged access. It frees infrastructure by distributing it across a population of intelligent agents equipped with solar harvesting, biofuel processing, water catchment and filtration, far-field and near-field communications and misting-arrays for hyper-local climate control. Photovoltaic cladding is available in crystalline silicon or printed organic/polymer cells. The SUPER_CELL, 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 micro-infrastructural nodes complete with self-sufficient resource harvesting.