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Animating Biophilosophy:
Spacestation | Julia Koerner
(Los Angeles)
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Inspired by Rene Daalder's spacecollective.org, the project addresses architecture, landscape and urban constraints of extra terrestrial design. While researching NASA's suburban proposals for space colonies of 1970s and the development of contemporary space tourism, I was working on outer atmosphere, gravity and weightlessness within an architectural design topic. Circular sections define the architectural spatial organization in zero gravity and are developed from a biological research into human vertebra as well as historic architectural precedent Palladio's Villa Rotonda. The combination of soft and hard elements within the organic structure relate to bone and flesh as in the human body. The design explores new horizons within built structures in outer space and generates enticing spatial qualities and enigmatic visual effects in the interior space.

 

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Animating Biophilosophy


NODE:

Edited by A.J. Nocek, Phillip Thurtle


Introduction: Vitalizing Thought
Phillip Thurtle and A.J. Nocek
i-xi

On Ascensionism
Eugene Thacker
1-7

Biomedia and the Pragmatics of Life in Architectural Design
A.J. Nocek
8-61

Concepts have a life on their own: Biophilosophy, History and Structure in Georges Canguilhem
Henning Schmidgen
62-97

Animation and Vitality
Phillip Thurtle
98-117

dowhile
Elizabeth Buschmann

Currents
Stephanie Maxwell

Animation and Vitality
Phillip Thurtle


Animation and the Medium of Life
Deborah Levitt
118-161

Finding Animals with Plant Intelligence

Richard Doyle
162-183



TANGENTS:

Edited by Marie-Pier Boucher and
Adam Szymanski


RV (Room Vehicle) Prototype: Where the Surface Meets the Machine
Greg Lynn
184-186

The Rhythmic Dance of (Micro-)Contrasts
Gerko Egert
187-191

Continuous Horizons

Lisa Sommerhuber
192-193

Christian Marclay's The Clock as Relational Environment
Toni Pape
194-207

Rotating Tongues

Elisabeth Brauner
208
In the Middle of it All: Words on and
with Peter Mettler

Adam Szymanski
209-216
Spacestation
Julia Koerner
217

Animal Enrichment and The VivoArts School for Transgenics Aesthetics Ltd.
Adam Zaretsky
218-245

Space Collective
Nora Graw
246

Xanadu_1
Andy Gracie
247-253

To Embrace Golden Beauty: An Interview from Around the Canopy
David Zink-Yi and
Antonio Fernandini-Guerrero

254-265