“Open-Source Architecture: Open-Cube” - 2nd Int. Antalya Architecture Biennial
The socio-spatial environment is hierarchically pre-determined, constructed, and operated; subordinating if not excluding the agency of the user. Is it possible to confront and overcome this structural problem instead of ignoring and even exploiting it? Is it possible to imagine an open-source architecture defined adaptively by ever-changing social dynamics, and co-utilized horizontally by users, architects, and other spatial actors in a participative and mercurial manner?ABOUTBLANK's first open-source architectural experiment is the Cube which, 1) defies the logic of pre-determined function, allowing the users to activate the Cubes according to their needs and desires, 2) defies the logic of pre-determined static condition, allowing the users to move, relocate, and displace the Cubes as mobile containers, 3) defies the logic of pre-determined authoritarian organization of architectural profession, allowing the users to get rid of their subordinate position and empower themselves as egalitarian spatial actors.
Date: September 2013
Type: Public Exhibition
Program: exhibition
Host: II. International Antalya Architecture Biennial (IABA 2013)
Team: Gökhan Kodalak, Ece Sıla Bora, Ozan Özdilek, Osman Ural, Erhan Vural, Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy, Daniele Ronca
Collaboration: Creative Initiative
Location: Antalya, Turkey
Status: Realized
Link: https://vimeo.com/75375320
