O.E.E. ONTOLOGICAL ECOLOGY OF ECHOS: When nature takes back

The project is an ongoing research which tries to establish strategies on environmental dialogues towards collaborative process between science and architecture. The aim is to design a house as iconic symbol of Home: a common ground for “family and safety” but also as a symbol of collapsing systems. The idea is to search models for a “wounded social sculpture” presented by an architecture body, that is defined by an internal malfunction, a genetic illness at birth. The termites incorporate the illness which activate the moment when nature stricks back. It suspends, a symbolic interference that proposes the illness of the system as a metaphor, a reveal of spatial malfunctions, disabilities, and failures on its metabolism. The transformation of the space involves a methodology that tries to understand how organisms grow in common grounds of invasion, infiltration, catastrophe and collapse: the hierarchical empowerment and its impact on society and environment. The house will be suspended in several main points, which sustain both living systems, the threat and its threaten, the environment and humanity, the present and the future, life and death.

Credits

Concept and design: Maria lucia Cruz Correia
Scientific collaboration with lnec: Research coordinator: Lina Nunes and research assistants: Marta Duarte, Sonia Duarte
Scientific collaboration with Cirad: Research Coordinator: Marie France Thévenon and research assistant: Nicolas Leménager
Architect: Lode Vranken
Infographics I Design: Catia Mendonça
Documentation: Tiago Abreu
Residency at Cultivamos Cultura, Ectopia, Vooruitkunscentrum
With the support of Flemish authorities, Vooruit, Cultivamos Cultura, Ectopia
Thanks to: Jose Carlos Felix e Paulo Frazâo