Unit: Reflection
Type: Architectural Rendering
Medium: Rhino + Grasshopper + Photoshop
Year: 2020
Medium: Rhino + Grasshopper + Photoshop
Year: 2020
The project imagines a new story for the origin of the universe - a different mechanism for a universal system. This began with thinking about how human life would be affected if the universal physical rules were augmented from the beginning of time. The project is taking the stance that this form is more effective at emitting and receiving data at a molecular level. Utilizing an infinitely adaptable system, we can create a unifying effect that also has an influence on all human decisions formally, functionally, sociologically, and more. The organic, yet faceted form allows for increased surface area to deliver energy with the holes acting as receivers for information, while cones act as emitters. We imagined this geometry in different scales such as the atomic scale all the way through to the universal scale by playing with materiality and energy.
This project draws similar inspiration from the Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges in that it imagines that all the universe’s information is openly accessible and visible to anyone at any time. This is because the unit is as small as an atom, but as large as the universe and all data can be traced back to this unit. At this point of unification, we begin to question whether any individual action means anything significant within this homogenous system.
Some other questions might include: Are beings truly sentient in this scenario? How does this unit know how and what to influence? And is our current reality really any different?
This project draws similar inspiration from the Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges in that it imagines that all the universe’s information is openly accessible and visible to anyone at any time. This is because the unit is as small as an atom, but as large as the universe and all data can be traced back to this unit. At this point of unification, we begin to question whether any individual action means anything significant within this homogenous system.
Some other questions might include: Are beings truly sentient in this scenario? How does this unit know how and what to influence? And is our current reality really any different?
