Glendall seems to have misread the brief for Jellyfish.
Glendall:
"The architects propose a phyto-remediation technique that would not necessitate the removal of five feet of topsoil demanded by other approaches."
IwamotoScott:
"The proposed site strategy is to infiltrate the island with sinuous fields of wetlands that would allow the removed soil to not need to be
replaced and remediate the remaining toxins."
In Glendall's view there is such a thing as an occupant willing to risk exposure to pathogenic toxins for the sake of domestic bliss. An interesting, perhaps ominous, oversight.
What's with all the cynicism? Its not really Y-shaped anyway -- more like two merging/intertwining volumes. And are you implying the other houses here aren't fraught with (arguably even greater) tropes/familiarities, if not cliches?
I'm not being cynical. I think the IwamotoScott project is one of the most innovative, daring and ambitious schemata I've seen, for so comparatively trivial a curatorial bias - the bias toward the home.
Jellyfish House is nothing short of paradigm-altering. Moreover, timely at that, considering the global warming trend. In the context of Treasure Island, its presence is pure elegance: A house that heals the land and the water while sustaining a family in a semi-amphibious environment. Achieving this with ubiquitous computing that is ambient, in other words, non-intrusive and arguably benign! Bloody hell that's sweet music to my ears, and a little frightening. Anything but cynical.
"...when computers are all around, so that we want to compute while doing something else and have more time to be more fully human, we must radically rethink the goals, context and technology of the computer and all the other technology crowding into our lives. Calmness is a fundamental challenge for all technological design of the next fifty years."
Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown
"The Coming Age of Calm Technology", Xerox PARC October 5, 1996
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Glendall seems to have misread the brief for Jellyfish.
Glendall:
"The architects propose a phyto-remediation technique that would not necessitate the removal of five feet of topsoil demanded by other approaches."
IwamotoScott:
"The proposed site strategy is to infiltrate the island with sinuous fields of wetlands that would allow the removed soil to not need to be
replaced and remediate the remaining toxins."
In Glendall's view there is such a thing as an occupant willing to risk exposure to pathogenic toxins for the sake of domestic bliss. An interesting, perhaps ominous, oversight.
at least the world gets yet another twisting Y-shaped house...
What's with all the cynicism? Its not really Y-shaped anyway -- more like two merging/intertwining volumes. And are you implying the other houses here aren't fraught with (arguably even greater) tropes/familiarities, if not cliches?
I'm not being cynical. I think the IwamotoScott project is one of the most innovative, daring and ambitious schemata I've seen, for so comparatively trivial a curatorial bias - the bias toward the home.
Jellyfish House is nothing short of paradigm-altering. Moreover, timely at that, considering the global warming trend. In the context of Treasure Island, its presence is pure elegance: A house that heals the land and the water while sustaining a family in a semi-amphibious environment. Achieving this with ubiquitous computing that is ambient, in other words, non-intrusive and arguably benign! Bloody hell that's sweet music to my ears, and a little frightening. Anything but cynical.
"...when computers are all around, so that we want to compute while doing something else and have more time to be more fully human, we must radically rethink the goals, context and technology of the computer and all the other technology crowding into our lives. Calmness is a fundamental challenge for all technological design of the next fifty years."
Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown
"The Coming Age of Calm Technology", Xerox PARC October 5, 1996
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