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BLUR BUILDING by Diller Scofidio + Renfro!

Architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have raised concerns about the conventionality of the approaches given to the temporality of space. Their interdisciplinary designs feature a shift from the post-modern aesthetic architecture toward a contemporary architecture based on time-based installations. In reflection to this critical design is the temporary structure set up by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the Swiss Expo in 2002. The structure, Blur Building, underlies the occurrence of time by its endless shift of ephemeral state and composition. It displays a temporary architecture that shifted and altered its structure in response to its immediate surroundings: from bodies to weather, where series of water jets form mist clouds suspended around the steel frame of the building. ! The Blur Building is an architecture of atmosphere. There is a fog mass resulting from natural and manmade forces. Water is pumped from the Lake Neuchâtel, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 35,000 high-pressure nozzles. A smart weather system reads the shifting climatic conditions of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction and regulates water pressure at a variety of zones.! Their works are spectacle sights to many, who fall into the inspiration that architecture should go beyond permanent buildings and encompass the spatial and haptic revelation.! DS+R have fostered a fusion of architecture, art and media in a way that surpasses postmodernism and their works have opened up doors for an even broader adventure into the field of design. Through their expertise and dedication, a revolution on the concepts of body, space and time has begun. !

Sasha Tesserot

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