Concrete Misplots

5 print stills, 70 × 100 cm
2010

Marginal architectures of the future. Featured in the "Raumtraum" section of the Swiss architecture magazine Hochparterre, these visualisations of future architectures employ the accidental in computer-driven manufacturing.

Based on iconic housing shapes, the buildings were meant as prototypes for mass customisation. Yet, as things go with computerised manufacturing, there were misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly. The concrete was set to the wrong parameters or scale. The printer module translated a data set falsely…

These misprints are the rejects of this early process, and they are now shared homes for elderly people from the former squatter scene.