Bio-space

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Bio-space is located within the continuity of Nature life through the movement of tides. Warehouses become "plates" of a technological pond and a network of inhabitable prosthesis far from trying to disconnect the movement of water, introduce them in every day life.

Bio-economies, Bio-politics

Today's life has become a wager, not only scientific ( Sciences of Life), but also in the production realm. Thus, the post-modern economics becomes increasingly « cognitive economics », and its much sought-after tool is the « brain ». It is an incarnated brain, belonging to a body that interacts with life's « affects ». This cognitive economics is correlated with a bio-politics that engages the production of life as a whole.
But to engage life's production means to engage the production of life's means of communication : language, but also inhabitable space : means that carry the potency of life that we call « affects ».
Our project aims at making of the conjunction earth-water a source of inorganic vitality, at shaping the amphibious milieu as a space « with » witch to live, a bio-space.


Bio-space

There is a history, and even a life of the space, not of his representation, but of the space itself. Next to spaces becoming inert expanses where every things is alike, get fossilized and dies, there are spaces that, by integrating an order of « before and after » , emerge.
Those fragments of space immersed in time carry « dislocation » or « interludes » ; we call them the bio-space.


Superposition of a mecanosphre and a biosphere

It is essential for architecture not to annihilate the force of the landscape that the former is supposed to enhance ; that « tekné » does not engulf Nature instead of completing it. The mecanosphere has to be superimposed to the ecosphere ; thus a self productive space (auto-poïetc) will be born, a living space.

But for the superposition to be effective, each sphere must keep its own movement. For that reason, in each sphere( neutral or built, mechanical or ecological) there are fluid rhizomes coming through the geological blocks, lines of strength carving sectors where matter slackens or spread out on extended surfaces.

First, there is the circulation of fluid forging the live sphere of water, with masses covering vast surfaces, percolating the earth towards other lesser surfaces, integrating a whole system of exchanges regulated by tides. Moreover, there is the stability of the natural and built soil, constituting the inhabitable sphere of the planet, with its stretches of virgin territory with its decaying fallow lands converted into geological blocks ; But there are also the hypostatic artificial or prosthetic constructions, the seat of residence and transit.


Tensors, plates, prosthesis

The sky's activity support life on earth, through the succession of day and night, the sequence of seasons of tides. The cosmos is not inert and lifeless, it has an inner life, a palpitation of countless stirrings. Bio-space is located within the continuity of cosmic life, in this case materialized through the movement of tides. Irrigation and curbing systems, far from trying to disconnect the movement of water, introduce them in every day life. Canals meant to flood land according to the rhythms of tides, are "active" lines, bending over themselves. Those are "tensors", continuums of intensity between Nature and inhabited areas.

Flooding industrial fallow lands means integrating them into a lake-like milieu. Warehouses acquire a geological dimension and become "telluric plates" floating over the water and constituting the basic milestones of a new marsh, a technological pond.

But for that technological pond to exist, another network is needed, another continuity, maintained by inhabitable prosthesis, a host of plates laid out randomly, either superimposed on the flood-prone soil or located in relation with plates, skirting them around or penetrating them, so as to engage a bio-space. Prosthesis link spaces separated by water, surrounding a built area, propped against solid land, but they float according to the ascending and descending movements of tides. More often than not, they accomplish all those roles simultaneously. They use the technical resources of naval architecture or derricks as well as the ones used in villages of South East Asia.