All tagged death

325_Dan Whelan: Sanctuary for the Harrowed

Submission #325 | Dan Whelan: Sanctuary for the Harrowed — “Since the beginning of human existence, people have been crafting spaces to house the processes of life and the inevitable event of death. These spaces range from monumental to economical, and display a vast array of cultural indicators, such as status and religion. While extremely diverse across the globe and universally significant, this typology has experienced less evolution through the centuries as its primary purpose of housing the dead has gone unchanged.”

322_Valeria Mazzilli: ORGANIstation

Submission #322 | Valeria Mazzilli: ORGANIstation — “Each year 350.000 to 500.000 people die for liver diseases. Microgravity has advanced the field of tissue engineering, including liver tissue faster growth and regeneration, the three dimensional cultivation of hepatocytes cells enhancing their aggregation. OrganiStation orbits on LEO, its design facilitates the flow of incoming patients and those who are ready to depart.”

93_Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail

Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail — "With the removal of the joint, more specifically, in the discourse of contemporary architecture, surface continuity and the diagram reign supreme. Jointless modernist organisms work so hard to detail in ways that hide the actual mechanics and ontological condensation of how buildings come into being. Tectonic is described in two realms, one pertaining to ontology, or how things come into being, and the other as representational, or the representation of a constructional element, which is present, but hidden."

70_Rasmus Maabjerg: Harrison Center of Death

Rasmus Maabjerg: Harrison Center of Death — It is a project that deals with both physical and non-physical datastorage, related to both the residents of Harrison and the transitory people comming in and out of the city. Both low and high skill work is perform in form of physically handeling of the items and highskill managing of the non-physical data.