A shade of grey
By Photoma’s World Yvette Depaepe
Burying an Architect
Graphite and conte on paper. 22″x30″.
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Tom Greenall - Cultivating Faith
Cultivating Faith: the feeding of the 59,000 | Royal College of Art, 2009
“Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately.”Winston Churchill, 1936Recent advances in tissue engineering look set to make Churchill’s vision commercially plausible within the next decade, forcing many to question society’s accepted norms. After all, science has already provided answers to many of the biblical miracles – creation, transfiguration, immaculate conception, resurrection – exacerbating an increasing loss of faith in the primacy of the Church.Concurrently, the food industry is becoming increasingly subject to religious influence, with the value of global Halal food production now at £300 billion annually. Given this emerging conflict, is our pursuit of genetic enhancement directly contradicted by our desire to retain traditional theist practice?In light of an impending global food crisis, and an inevitable shortage of Halal meat in the UK, science turns its attention to the last remaining biblical miracle – the feeding of the masses. Located on a toxic wasteland in the heart of Newham, urban farming becomes manifest as the UK’s first commercial in vitro meat production facility.Through an investigation into the inevitable acceptance of lab-grown meat this project questions: Can a reinterpretation of faith become a tool for the regeneration of London’s most deprived boroughs?Intended as a critique of 21st century society’s tendency to adapt its system of values in order to fulfil its needs, this project is also (and more specifically) concerned with how different religious groups have been forced to reinterpret religious practice in order to retain their traditional beliefs.Located on Beckton Alp - a post-industrial landscape formed through the demolition of the old Beckton Gasworks, this new ‘Site of Pilgrimage’ is comprised of five main programmatic elements, each driven by a parable of Islamic faith, or a teaching of the Qur’an. Motivated by the cultivation of Halal produce, the site will immediately become a focus for pilgrimage [immigration] and will seek to foster greater religious tolerance through the successful integration of its transient occupants. In the process the facility will turn its once contaminated home into desirable land.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48tfmowZ91qm4bu8o1_1280.jpg)
Tom Greenall - Cultivating Faith
Cultivating Faith: the feeding of the 59,000 | Royal College of Art, 2009
“Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately.”
Winston Churchill, 1936
Recent advances in tissue engineering look set to make Churchill’s vision commercially plausible within the next decade, forcing many to question society’s accepted norms. After all, science has already provided answers to many of the biblical miracles – creation, transfiguration, immaculate conception, resurrection – exacerbating an increasing loss of faith in the primacy of the Church.
Concurrently, the food industry is becoming increasingly subject to religious influence, with the value of global Halal food production now at £300 billion annually. Given this emerging conflict, is our pursuit of genetic enhancement directly contradicted by our desire to retain traditional theist practice?
In light of an impending global food crisis, and an inevitable shortage of Halal meat in the UK, science turns its attention to the last remaining biblical miracle – the feeding of the masses. Located on a toxic wasteland in the heart of Newham, urban farming becomes manifest as the UK’s first commercial in vitro meat production facility.
Through an investigation into the inevitable acceptance of lab-grown meat this project questions: Can a reinterpretation of faith become a tool for the regeneration of London’s most deprived boroughs?
Intended as a critique of 21st century society’s tendency to adapt its system of values in order to fulfil its needs, this project is also (and more specifically) concerned with how different religious groups have been forced to reinterpret religious practice in order to retain their traditional beliefs.
Located on Beckton Alp - a post-industrial landscape formed through the demolition of the old Beckton Gasworks, this new ‘Site of Pilgrimage’ is comprised of five main programmatic elements, each driven by a parable of Islamic faith, or a teaching of the Qur’an. Motivated by the cultivation of Halal produce, the site will immediately become a focus for pilgrimage [immigration] and will seek to foster greater religious tolerance through the successful integration of its transient occupants. In the process the facility will turn its once contaminated home into desirable land.
(Source: gothboyproblems)
Objects III & IX - Stasus
Authors of the latest Pamphlet Architecture 32
“Animate Landscapes Is the culmination of two years work based on Warsaw and is the beginning of the collaborative work that led to Stasus. Incorporating a proposal for a film and animation studio; the Warsaw Institute of Experimental Film, the project developed programme and forms from an amalgamation of the physical context of the site in Warsaw and the material context of the studio in Edinburgh.
The buildings both work with the train tracks on the site, tethered and held above them and in response to their continuous motion. While the studios channel vibrations from the tracks into the film editing process, the hotel sits inaccessible and skeletal above the station platforms, opening up and coming to life when the film festival begins.”
(Source: ForGIFs.com)
‘The Church of Perpetual Experimentation’ - Adam Nathaniel Furman
A design for a new church in one of the suburbs of Rome, set within the factious context of a new pontificate that is devoted to the restructuring and expansion of the church, its liturgies and its architecture. The site is set aside by the new pope as a field of experimentation, where the doctrinal and liturgical innovations being developed over the Tiber in the Vatican are immediately put to test and trial with the practicing — and non-practicing — public. All development in the work is structured around the theme of Assemblage, so that all scales, from structural unit, through to the composition of those units into spaces, and then the arrangement of those spaces themselves, are governed by a logic of assemblage, aggregation, and eventually in time, recombination.
Lines by Adam Draper, Hugh McEwen & Greg Skinner
LINES is an intimate exhibit of exclusively original hand-drawn
architectural works.Spanning the course of 20 years in academia and with 20 exhibitors,
LINES aims to take a snapshot of past, current and future use of hand
drawing within architectural academia.In a reserved and concise manner, it seeks to demonstrate that hand
drawing is as relevant today as it has ever been, and is the most
enduring and direct form of architectural communication.
Dietrich Wegner. Playhouse.
Intricate woven thread installations by French artist Sebastien Preschoux.
