Matthew Poon of Bloomsbury is socially awkward and doesn't go out much. In the hope of breaking out from his safety bubble and enriching this reality with his architecture, he attempted to invent didactic mediums to investigate this world and the realms beyond. One such mediator is the pigeon seducing spatial arrangement. It sits at the seam of the human/nonhuman world and acts as a cypher for Matthew to study the subjects' behaviour.
Experiments were done to re-educate and reprogramme pigeons whilst he performed an autopsy on their logic to see the world in peculiar ways. Through this entanglement with the dioramic setup, Matthew treated the pigeons as probes and compasses of the outer world. By reversing his logic and reassembling his cosmologies, Matthew had developed an embodiment of knowledge, injected all his fascinations and desires in the form of an architecture, the 'Institute for Hydraulic Calibration and Hydrometrical Automata'. This architecture accommodates, nurtures, and anticipates expeditions.
Through the adventurous materialisation of this construct, Matthew has come to realise that that the pigeon automata have become his metaphorical lens for the rather precise way in which he gathers an understanding of the world and assembles it.
Humans and pigeons have something in common besides diet, but the way a pigeon understands the building and sees it is completely different.
An architecture that accommodates, nurtures and incubates. An embodiment of knowledge, fascinations and desires with reversed logics and cosmology.
The portside team learns from the past by nurturing the pigeon automata and their expeditions. The gantry transports them from the dock and into the wild.
The starboard team forecasts the future by constantly rebuilding and calibrating a hydraulic mode in order to simulate the situation beamed back by the automata.