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Human-Machine-Environment Ecology: An Experimental Interactive Factory for the Blind in Tokwawan

Part 2 Project 2019
Yeh Yi Hsin
Chinese University of Hong Kong | China
“Human-Machine-Environment Ecology” tries to establish a touchstone to explore the symbiotic relationship between the three as one ecology by robotic experimental devices. Through setting up rules of evolution built into an operable architectural system, this thesis imagined scenarios for a cybernetic paradigm and promoted the conception of architectural objects as performative, responsive, intelligent and sentient artifacts.

The project naturally focuses on transforming an old factory for the blind in To Kwa Wan into an experimental performance factory as a manoeuvre of co-evolving the marginalized disabled through technological advancements and environmental consideration, re-establishing a mutual relationship between the factory and its social community.

The project aims to illustrate how robotic automation enables the entire building to become adaptive machine ecologies between human, environment and technology. In an age where the production of space is getting more and more intertwined with computation, negotiating complexity with a greater appreciation for the potential of dynamic and adaptive machines will present unique opportunities not just for architectural thinking and dreaming, but also for architectural realization and habitation.


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