2024-12-22T05:23:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/137883829/mmyst-a-crowd-funded-human-animal-hybrid-building-by-fran-ois-roche-and-camille-lacadee-of-new-territories-m4 Nicholas Korody 2015-09-30T16:14:00-04:00 >2015-10-08T01:08:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wd/wdfve5iquek3vlbf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>"What we propose here is a different format for making architecture,"&nbsp;Camille Lacadee states in a deadpan tone, "with multiple clients, multiple users, backers, lovers, following a bottom-up mode of exchanges and desire." A robotic arm extends into the frame and offers her a bowl of bird's nest soup, which she takes. "Oh it's hot!"</p><p>Alongside Fran&ccedil;ois Roche,&nbsp;Lacadee&nbsp;heads the&nbsp;ever-mutating, radically-experimental architecture studio currently-known-as <a href="http://www.new-territories.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New-Territories / M4</a>. For their new project&nbsp;MMYST, or "mke_Me_yungR_sheltR_tmptation," they've launched a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2139928141/mmyst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a> that includes what is likely one of the most wonderfully strange videos that's ever been on the crowd-funding website.</p><p><br><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/sk/skfajjh4ltnvtgdn.jpg"><br><br>According to the campaign description, MMYST would comprise a 140 sqm (1500 ft&sup2;) "experimental hybrid building" to be shared by humans and swiftlets, a species of bird that makes unique nests out of saliva that are prized for their culinary applications.<br><br>Sited on an outcropping of cooled-lava in th...</p>