A Curious Walk through a Cyborg's Garden, Approaching Shogekigo.Land.
_Into the Garden.
Ukiyo.Land is a project that sets itself within a narrative post-human world that questions reality through the body of the cyborg, as posed within the “Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway and “The Machine in the Garden” by Leo Marx.
Ukiyo.Land: The "Cyborgean" Landscape.
Using the cyborg as a design tool that responds to the current realities of our climate, sustainable practices, and the concept of regeneration, the project proposes a dichotomic infrastructural leisure district that acts as a regenerative prosthesis within the local landscape.
Ukiyo.Land: Ground Floor Site Plan Tour
Ukiyo.Land is designed to use responsive machine elements that use ecology and human physiology to clean the localised air, water and river waste.
It poses the question: how would cyborgs recreate the Garden of Eden?
It poses the question: how would cyborgs recreate the Garden of Eden?
Ukiyo.Land: Kokyu.Land in Construction.
_Understanding A.L.I.C.E. , "Ukiyo" & the Cyborg Garden.
A.L.I.C.E.: Research Film
This research film was developed to establish A.L.I.C.E.'s agency further within the project and understand her relationship with the site and the development of the project.
Elements of A.L.I.C.E.
A.L.I.C.E. the machine
A.L.I.C.E in Motion: Body Rig.
A.L.I.C.E. and the Human
A.L.I.C.E. walk cycles.
A.L.I.C.E. was developed as part of the brief to create a post-human protagonist, known as an 'Odradek' based on selected and randomly generated elements. From this development the project took a closer view towards the idea of the cyborg and how a body which sits in the space that perverses boundaries would design a project.
Air Quality Studies
Local Water Quality Studies
Overlaying Taste Nerve Study
Studies of the London and the local site as well as the pre-established agencies of A.L.I.C.E. as a sustainability driven cyborg were undertaken, allowing A.L.I.C.E. to understand what the project needed to address. This would then form Ukiyo.Land's first iterations as a spatial intervention that would begin to establish firm design principles around 'cyborgean architecture'.
Intervention: -1fl. Nerve Plan
Intervention: Ground Floor Site Plan
Intervention: Responsive Garden Playground Section
Intervention: Solitary Nucleus Tract Data Point Pavilion.
A 5m composite drawing was developed by hand in semester 2 to establish a proof of concept for Ukiyo.Land being a transitory alien space to become lost in and a series of landscape prostheses that would feel both like machine and organic. This was also the first opportunity to develop the programme of the project moving forward.
Ukiyo.Land in Concept: 5m Esquisse Development Video.
_The Machines in the Garden.
Creating Ukiyo.Land's Cyborg Populous.
To further immerse oneself in the world, a set of cyborg characters were developed, humans that adapted to become cyborgs that would be the primary user type of the project.
Machines in the Garden.
Kokyu.Land Playgrounds: Japanese Joint Structure.
Kokyu.Land: The Responsive Playground Machines.
Kokyu.Land Playground Module Construction Sequence
Kokyu.Land: Breathe System Section Detail
Adaptive Telescopic Floating Pile Foundation Detail
Onsen.Land Section
Kumo.Land Teahouse: Exploded Isometric
Shogekigo.Land Section
Cyborgs in the Sauna: The Kiss of Life Machine.
_Evolutions of a Cyborg Eden:
A.L.I.C.E. & The Carcinized City.
3000 Years Later...
