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Life Engineering understands the practice of architecture as a problem of material organization, aligned in principle with the most established modern agenda. But rather than rooting its materialism in the mechanistic paradigm, it endeavours to open it to a generative life, working on the intensification of the organizational condition of architecture to the point of curving it. More precisely, to the point of recognizing that its straightness is a particularly aestheticized case.

The research assumes that a material organization participates in many forms and scales of order that, while continuous at a performative level, have been segregated in separate domains of expertise and decision-making. This multiplicity is embedded in temporal processes far larger than that of the architect’s traditional competence. The Performance Shed proposes the construction of a machine operating as if before the project, a pre-architectural mode of material life.