Limitlessness // Cities of the near future – Living in the City

April 27, 2015 by bg-martin

  Limitlessness Defying Capacities and Tectonic Boundaries by BG-Martin I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again…the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. — J. G. Ballard   Living in the City The Old, the New and what’s Next? When we reason about the city of the […]

Categories: Tectonic Ventures • Tags: architecture, city, limit, tectonic boundary, Tectonic Ventures

Limitlessness // Defying Capacities and #Tectonic Boundaries

April 24, 2015 by bg-martin

Limitlessness Defying Capacities and Tectonic Boundaries — Introduction by BG-Martin   At the beginning of the third millennium, the world is denser than ever before. It’s inhabited by an escalating number of people — who consume more, who need more space, and more comfort. Such a world seeks space, for extra production, water, energy production, oxygen, ecological compensation, safety, and buffers owing to the increased possibilities for disasters. The response to the production of these desires is seemingly positioned everywhere. […]

Categories: Tectonic Ventures • Tags: architecture, capacity, density, intensity, limit, tectonic boundary, Tectonic Ventures

#Architecture as borderline condition // the logos of form beyond tectonic boundaries

April 21, 2015 by bg-martin

Architecture as Borderline Condition The logos of form beyond tectonic boundaries — first thoughts by BG-Martin In the architectural scenario there is always an assumption of thresholds and limits. Based on the hypothesis that limit is what sets the frontier of something that outside of itself will cease to exist and for that matter, allowing that something new to start; my interest lies on the union of the space that ends with the one that begins — a no-man’s land […]

Categories: Spaced Out • Tags: architecture, borderline, form, limit, Spaced Out, threshold