10.09.06 | architekturbiennale venedig 2006

The test arrangement consists of thirty-five erratic cuboids with identical base but different heights. They are made out of red coloured agar, which is a high potential nutrient material. By various placement of the cuboids, multiple spaces and volumes will be created and will build a kind of archetype city which provides itself with nutrition for future progressions. We developed instruments which allows us to direct the further evolution of the experiment: In some of the cuboids we injected an antiseptic solution which delays or blocks the accretion. In other cases we covered the surfaces with a smear of important spots in the city, which we see as the fingerprint of urban life. Implementing some biological structures will emblematise the verdure of an agglomeration. It's an in vitro test arrangement, completely independent from external influences, showing that the positive increase process is limited. The expiration isn't the failure of the experiment but is rather the acknowledgement that this model is dedicated to destruction without external care.