ABSOLUTE ZERO: A LIGHT HOUSE OF TEMPORALITY
2003
Osmo Rauhala & Asymptote Architecture
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
We are all coming from different ethnic backgrounds, using different mediums in our art, and suddenly we are working together with a unique material on a public project in a very remote place.
We combined our skills, our knowledge of the ancient building techniques to most recent computer science. During the process, never felt there was a difference between us, because some was called an architect and some an artist. Of course, we all specialized in producing what we could do best, but the creative process was very smooth cooperation.
Asymptote Architecture:
The third law of thermodynamics states:
"There is no disorder in a substance in equilibrium at the absolute zero of temperature".
As artists and thinkers we can visit and comment on the notion of order as it pertains to our tenuous relationship to nature outside the scientific debate, and propose instead possibilities that are tangible realities tethered precariously to the human condition.
The collective work we are embarking on will strive to harness the combined forces of nature and manner them into a tangible inhabitable environment. The 'architecture' and its resultant interiority will communicate through traditions as old as story telling and as advanced as engineering and mathematical theorems (determined by natural systems and orders), a place existing on the edge of these phenomena. The resulting work will attempt to reveal a simultaneously contemporaneous and traditional view of the eternal human-technological-natural-environmental condition that is indisputably a global condition of great concern.
ABSOLUTE ZERO: A LIGHT HOUSE OF TEMPORALITY
2003
Osmo Rauhala & Asymptote Architecture
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
We are all coming from different ethnic backgrounds, using different mediums in our art, and suddenly we are working together with a unique material on a public project in a very remote place.
We combined our skills, our knowledge of the ancient building techniques to most recent computer science. During the process, never felt there was a difference between us, because some was called an architect and some an artist. Of course, we all specialized in producing what we could do best, but the creative process was very smooth cooperation.
Asymptote Architecture:
The third law of thermodynamics states:
"There is no disorder in a substance in equilibrium at the absolute zero of temperature".
As artists and thinkers we can visit and comment on the notion of order as it pertains to our tenuous relationship to nature outside the scientific debate, and propose instead possibilities that are tangible realities tethered precariously to the human condition.
The collective work we are embarking on will strive to harness the combined forces of nature and manner them into a tangible inhabitable environment. The 'architecture' and its resultant interiority will communicate through traditions as old as story telling and as advanced as engineering and mathematical theorems (determined by natural systems and orders), a place existing on the edge of these phenomena. The resulting work will attempt to reveal a simultaneously contemporaneous and traditional view of the eternal human-technological-natural-environmental condition that is indisputably a global condition of great concern.
ABSOLUTE ZERO: A LIGHT HOUSE OF TEMPORALITY
2003
Osmo Rauhala & Asymptote Architecture
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
We are all coming from different ethnic backgrounds, using different mediums in our art, and suddenly we are working together with a unique material on a public project in a very remote place.
We combined our skills, our knowledge of the ancient building techniques to most recent computer science. During the process, never felt there was a difference between us, because some was called an architect and some an artist. Of course, we all specialized in producing what we could do best, but the creative process was very smooth cooperation.
Asymptote Architecture:
The third law of thermodynamics states:
"There is no disorder in a substance in equilibrium at the absolute zero of temperature".
As artists and thinkers we can visit and comment on the notion of order as it pertains to our tenuous relationship to nature outside the scientific debate, and propose instead possibilities that are tangible realities tethered precariously to the human condition.
The collective work we are embarking on will strive to harness the combined forces of nature and manner them into a tangible inhabitable environment. The 'architecture' and its resultant interiority will communicate through traditions as old as story telling and as advanced as engineering and mathematical theorems (determined by natural systems and orders), a place existing on the edge of these phenomena. The resulting work will attempt to reveal a simultaneously contemporaneous and traditional view of the eternal human-technological-natural-environmental condition that is indisputably a global condition of great concern.
ABSOLUTE ZERO: A LIGHT HOUSE OF TEMPORALITY
2003
Osmo Rauhala & Asymptote Architecture
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
Osmo Rauhala:
Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid and I moved to Manhattan fifteen years ago.
We have been living as neighbors, just around a corner in SoHo for years.
We have children almost the same age, but we never met each other until The Snow Show.
Already on the beginning of the project we realized that not only our lives are moving on the same paths, but our thoughts and interests are very much parallel. Only this social aspect would make this project very interesting, but of course the main opportunity within it is the great learning possibility.
We are all coming from different ethnic backgrounds, using different mediums in our art, and suddenly we are working together with a unique material on a public project in a very remote place.
We combined our skills, our knowledge of the ancient building techniques to most recent computer science. During the process, never felt there was a difference between us, because some was called an architect and some an artist. Of course, we all specialized in producing what we could do best, but the creative process was very smooth cooperation.
Asymptote Architecture:
The third law of thermodynamics states:
"There is no disorder in a substance in equilibrium at the absolute zero of temperature".
As artists and thinkers we can visit and comment on the notion of order as it pertains to our tenuous relationship to nature outside the scientific debate, and propose instead possibilities that are tangible realities tethered precariously to the human condition.
The collective work we are embarking on will strive to harness the combined forces of nature and manner them into a tangible inhabitable environment. The 'architecture' and its resultant interiority will communicate through traditions as old as story telling and as advanced as engineering and mathematical theorems (determined by natural systems and orders), a place existing on the edge of these phenomena. The resulting work will attempt to reveal a simultaneously contemporaneous and traditional view of the eternal human-technological-natural-environmental condition that is indisputably a global condition of great concern.
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