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Student Hanadi Izzuddin
Programme
Unit PG20
Year 5
Awards
  • Distinction

The project explores an architecture for the digitally-nomadicised posthuman subject that reconciles three domains of contemporary reality: the human, the natural, and the technological. Through an analysis of the temporal systems intrinsic to the human body, the circuit board and Gran Canaria’s landscape, a set of algorithmic metadata is extracted to solve an island-resort masterplan.


The masterplan critiques the homogeneity and contextual indifference of traditional ‘Gran Canarian’ resorts, and generates an architectural language through a series of colliding algorithms that interpolate all three of the domains.


Comprised by an underlying series of voxels, materials are allocated to a building's skin through a system of colour coding based on variables such as opacity, strength, directionality and curvature. Each building on the site has binary conditions: a colour-coded, voxelised, virtual existence, and a material reality which combines stone, marble, glass and vegetation.


Generated here is an architecture that reflects the multilayered constitution of the digitally-extended body. This architecture defines posthuman space as one which is consumed across gradients of experience: from the embodied to the remote, the muscular to the ocular, at once moored in reality and suspended in virtuality.

Binary Tree Resort

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