Below is work from the past 2 weeks that explore at more depth the parameters of the project which I am working on. At the center is the masterplan, incomplete at the moment, but frames the outline of the conception and operation of a slime-mould based, living material internet imbedded through gilded gold and accessed by a component of the human body as it engages the building through gestural ritual (hip-processional via vestibule, eye-touch with light via temple, hand/humb-handshakes via threshold) that occurs within the allegorical projection of freemasonry. The building operates as a metaphorical clock through quarterly lodge meetings, the living material internet operates on a biological clock, slipping between the three life-cycles of slime mould caused by atmospheric changes in its environment (humidity, temperature, light and food source). The internet itself, is a clandestine technology, known only to the highest degree within the society. The slime mould is coded through the Knights Templer ciphor and over laid within the framework of freemasons hall, which the architectural/geometrical framework is coded from the inspiration of the ‘passing through the octagon’ (standing on the cross) masonic cipher. Through dual coding, messages can be recorded and stored through the architectural engagement of the building with the body and revealed through the architecture itself.

The result is an architectural inquiry that is material,  technology and event based, situated within a social context with political spice, and ‘occurs’ on the micro-scale, human scale of touch, the scale of the city and the scale of society.

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