Hylozoic Ground, by Philip Beesley
This work is a growing, touring artwork that suggests a new kind of responsive architecture.
It can now be found at the Sydney Biennale (september 2012).
The Hylozoic environment can be described as a suspended geotextile that gradually accumulates hybrid soil from ingredients drawn from its surroundings. Akin to the functions of a living system, embedded machine intelligence allows human interaction to trigger breathing, caressing, and swallowing motions and hybrid metabolic exchanges. These empathic motions ripple out from hives of kinetic valves and pores in peristaltic waves, creating a diffuse pumping that pulls air, moisture and stray organic matter through the filtering Hylozoic membranes. 'Living' chemical exchanges are conceived as the first stages of self-renewing functions that might take root within this architecture.
(Excerpt from the press release for his installation at the Canadian Pavilion at Architecture Biennale Venice 2010 ).
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86B9Nz_LVU
for an excellent explanation of its layers by its designer, Philip Beesley.
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