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Ezio Blasetti is an architect tee/tcg, academic, programmer, and computational designer.
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equirectangular diffusion
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villa nerf
z_shelter
Would Have Been My Last Complaint
Creative team
Scenario, Camille Lacadee, Francois Roche, [eIf/bʌt/c]
Design process, Computation, Ezio Blasetti
Robotic Design, Special effects, Stephan Henrich
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Making-of, Danielle Willems
Sound design, Myrtille Fakhreddine, Devin Jerrigan
Computation, fabrication, construction, Mark-Henry Jean Decrausaz, Cameron David Newnham, Mark Kowalyov, Javed Godkin Paul de Costa, Peeraya Suphasidh
Cameraman, Suthiwat Yanawiboot
Storyboard, Pim Jular
Model, Props, Pajareeya Suriwong, Nichapatara Swangdecharux
Machinism special design, Cheng Yu Ling
Planning, organization movie, Wachira Leangtanom
Making-of, organization, Pantira Unarat
Assistant historical research, Natreeya Kraichitti
Assistant community negotiation, Lila Tedesco
Assistants production, Arisa Juengsophonvitavas, Papat Jinaphun, Nicha Laptaveepanya, Nuthapong Jiratiticharoen, Benjawan Lamsa-ard, Tachapol Danaboonchai, Suthata Jiranuntarat, Yanisa Chumpolphaisal, Jenwit Narukatphichai, Permpoon Rojanasakul
Acknowledgements
Sri Ganapati Vedeshwar, librarian / Elias Tabet, principal Pandrata Circle / Sanjeen SingPawat / Gwyl Jahn
Construction
Manjunath & Co, Engineer
Ravi N.Pattegar, Civil Engineer Contractor
Description
It’s a story… of how an illusion is able to create things, signs, research, fragment, assemblage, agencements and finally a shape, an object…. How a line of subjectivation is used as a strategy materializing in the physical world, in the tangible, touchable zone of our environment.
It is an experiment, linked to the study circle existence and contents… how to extract from the multitude of books and knowledge stored in the site, a possibility of substantiation, a possibility of materialization….to reveal what the words contained in them, for their ability to transform the way we negotiate with realities…
The relationship to the location (laterite stone), to the study circle (mainly constituted by philosophical and psychological references), to the owner, mister Vedeshwar…… and his mind… and his own practice of discovering knowledge through enigma, dilemma, signs, esoteric language and times clock gap between solar or lunar calendar based (3mn56s)…which becomes the process to manifest his illusion in the spectrum of the real.
It’s a story of someone, involved in the rereading of the Baghavad gita, its multiple psycho interpretation, about the war between two cousins which could be understood as a personal fight against our own indecision, against our own self-indulgence…. A story of somebody which found the way to extract through signs and mathematical logic a shape, which passes from his mind to a cartography, from a cartography to a 3D object drifting slowly to a real construction at scale 1 by his own enlightening… he is himself becoming a fragment of this construction….on the site where he found the sign, to understand that this indeterminacy structure has the power to help him to renegotiate his own complaint (as the Krishna dialogue with Arjuna). / movie 15mn / Shell-ter 30m2
Introduction
We will head down to south India, Karnataka, Gokarna, a fishermen coastal village where, tells the Ramayana, Ganesha disguised as a young boy tricked demon king Ravana on his way to (Sri) Lanka, and buried Shiva’s Atma Linga (phallus)… Today the land still perspires its traditions, as a significant birthplace to south-east asian ancient epics and artistic practices.
Yet the state of Karnataka is also home to the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore city, churning out 250 robots every year.
The region is challenged today by new economies and modes of fabrication.This contemporary context is precisely the site of an emerging geometry. On the rocky plateau above the village an unusual ambitious project slowly surfaces, and provides us with the occasion to embrace India’s schizophrenic mind-set
On the rocky plateau above the village an unusual project slowly surfaces, and provides us with the occasion to embrace India’s schizophrenic mind-set :
The Study Circle Library, one man’s life dedication to literature, religion and philosophy in the form of books, has recently opened its new housing, as part of Pandrata Cultural Centre, an international platform for performing arts, where are notably thought Bharata Natyam and Kathakali, two classical south indian dance forms, consisting of detailed gestures and precisely defined body movements…
Project Outline
Housed in the Study Circle Library, our design studio will be informed by readings, enquiries, interviews, and film-making. Switching between computation and hand/machine labour, we will develop and build an outdoor landscape-pavilion (20 m2) for reading books (indoor) of the library and performing arts (outdoor), from an on-going procedural experimentation with the local material, laterite – red porous soil, rich in iron and aluminium oxides, formed by decaying rocks weathered by tropical heat and centuries of heavy rain –directly extracted from the site.
As much as the assemblage, the extraction mode will be generative of “z’ Shell-Ter” : carving, cutting, piling, interlocking, dissolving, grinding,…
To optimise production and developp knowledge, the studio will work on:
. Research (laterite expertise, know-how, political and cultural involvements, rituals, folklore and literature, extraction-transformation symbiosis)
. Process – computation (logic of aggregation, scattering, staggering, stacking, with variable components, on Rhino Grasshopper and Python scripting)
. Material experiment (prototyping, test of resisting and decay, strategy of construction, machinism and robotic developements))
. Report (photography, recordings and film / stop motion during all the process of construction)
The work days life will be balanced between computation and hands-on work in situ (local knowledge, memories and know-how knitted with global tooling, computation and machinism) as exogeneous-endogeneous apparatuses.
A machine will be designed and produced to extract the Laterite with potential of water-jet creating a non repetitive component which is able to be re-introduced as a non-standard process to create the geometry of the experimental reading room. The knowledge of the cut will produce a specific “agencements” and assemblage able to renovate the traditional brick wall stereotype.
A report of the construction and opening will be done by a movie of 15 mn, with documentary art director including titles with credits, sponsorships…
This project (design, process, researches, documentation, construction, etc.) will entirely emerge from the collaborative work of our group, as a unique and engaged realization.
Blurring the limits between students and instructors, we will define together a strategy of co-responsibility and co-authorship.
Course Offered
Design Build & Design Construction for Communities
Gen-ed _Critical Thinking in Architecture (influences / researches / formal (in)quarry in the form of documentaries)
-Scripting – Rhino Grasshopper / computation meanings and protocols
-Robotic logic-behavior-design
-Building/construction / robotic applied in low technologies situation
-Each day the starting point will include an early yoga meditation class and end it with a (optional) sunset swim & surf at the beach nearby…
The Funambulist Papers 32 /// Would Have Been… an inventory by Camille Lacadée
a dark laterite monolith near a library
thirty days / twenty-nine people of diverse nationalities and age still to be confirmed
an old man collecting books
a library counting exactly seventy thousand books in thirty-six different languages / some unknown languages
twenty-nine return tickets
forty chairs and twenty tables poorly made of recycled pine wood
a twenty-one point one megapixels full frame complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor digital single-lens reflex camera body with two flash cards of thirty-two gigabits and two batteries / a lens with bellows mechanism specially customized for this body / a good tripod with film head
a light-emitting diode camera yellow to white light / a cheap tripod for the light
a five in one foldable elliptic white and silver reflector
a short shotgun condenser microphone with cable and a smaller stereo condenser microphone / a twenty-four bits uncompressed and built-in stereo microphones sound recorder with four different waveform audio file format modes
an acoustically transparent synthetic fur material with soft long hairs
twenty electrical adapters for plug types A B D G M into outlet types C E F L
an A3 borderless inkjet printer with refill cartridges / four bottles of ink to refill the cartridges
a three terabits external hard-drive
five six-outlet power strips / two or three retractable extension cord reels
twelve universal serial bus internet keys to share / thirty pens and pencils / five hundred sheets of A3 copy paper
another light-emitting diode camera light and another cheap tripod
three vans of twelve people each, a bicycle inside one and a surfboard on top
but…..
a guesthouse with ten rooms and ten cottages for two people each / two rooms with an extra bed
a noxious dinning place
two loyal dogs
a family of three and a care-taker living in the library
an engineer then another one
two hundred corners of A3 copy paper sheets eaten by one of the loyal dogs
a contractor then another one / a wooden board Ganesha painting to bring good luck
two men and three women chopping bushes and cactuses around the monolith
one rented gasoline generator set of ten kilowatt
eleven metallic electric fans
twenty litres of gasoline
three women and two men excavating seven cubic metres of soft laterite around the monolith
seventy steel tubes of length six meters and diameter four centimetres cut into thirty-five tubes of length four meters and thirty-five of three and seventy of two and thirty five of one
three hundred twenty chocolate hazelnut spread pancakes with masala tea
twenty yoga mats
one hundred and forty perforations on the monolith
six hundred rough laterite blocks of twenty by twenty by forty centimetres
six hundred metal rods / three tape-measurers /one kilogram of black pigment
twenty litres of gasoline
but…..
a set of speakers eaten overnight perhaps by one of the loyal dogs perhaps by a monkey
one hundred kilogram of bitumen
two hundred pillar white candles of twenty grams melted at seventy degree
an office of complaints / three complaints registered
another cheap tripod / a moka pot from New York City / a set of mid-range loudspeakers with defective two round pin plug
three hundred twenty muesli fruits bowls with masala tea
six hundred six millimetres perforations of the steel tubes
twenty litres of gasoline
a sexual assault and two hours at the police station
two hundred fifty grams of cotton to make clouds / twelve hours of surf classes / an untimely departure
six hundred laterite components carved in shark fin shape of three different sizes
ten frogs for the bleeding drawing night scene take one / four other frogs for the take two
fifteen sky lanterns ascending together and forming the Aries constellation
but….
a program director’s inopportune visit with one of her boys
seventy five litres of water-based black paint
one hundred villagers in the rain
twenty litres of gasoline
twenty-five non-waterproof raincoats / three surf boards on location
several packs of cigarettes smelling like fish abandoned on a table
thirty black Acetoxy silicon sealant tubes for nothing
six hundred domestic phone calls
twenty litres of gasoline
two hundred glass components travelling a thousand eight hundred kilometres by airplane then truck
three hundred and twenty sunny side eggs swallowed with instant coffee
forty litres of oil black paint / ten extra brushes / two hundred small plastic cups
seven hundred fifty litres of beer containing glycerol and six to eight percent of alcohol
two hundred and ten rickshaw journeys
eighteen hours of yoga classes
twenty litres of gasoline
but…
five bottles of blend based on neutral spirits distilled from fermented molasses
twenty-one early departures
two thousand four hundred plastic bottles of one and a half litres of water
four hundred ninety-five thousand litres of pure oxygen / five hundred chickens / two vegetarian
a one terabit external hard-drive bought in last-minute emergency
four hundred and twenty-three millimetres of rain representing a deficit of fifty-seven percent from usual reports
a longing for Verrucaria nigrescens to take over