Living Wall by Yulia Nemova

Living Wall

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Can the structure of a building or a part of it, like a wall, to live and have processes similar to human body, even have a face - so that we would perceive it as a friend, as a living person? Can it have emotional and sensual features of the body? “Living wall” always in process of transformations, deviations, it filling the space, live inside, breath, heal it. Like a human being, its not perfect. It doesn’t always take care of itself, it can be insecure, vulnerable if the “wall” becomes an active habitant what scenarios of communication with it are possible, can we become closer to it, to care about it, and even make “it” care about us? They communicate with us, they communicate with neighboring “walls”: overcooling, overheat, joyful moments, loneliness, happiness, loudness or calmness, communicating datum from water overflow to feeling range of despair. Negroponte writes: “Does a machine have to possess a body like my own and be able to experience behaviors like my own in order to share in what we call intelligent behavior? While it may seem absurd, I believe the answer is yes.” architecture machine “should not only engage in dialogue with the world but also “must receive direct sensory information from the real world. It must see, hear, and read, and it must take walks in the garden.” the skin is growing It’s talking It’s supports It agonizes It fades if non fed It dies to be the base for new skin to come

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