ZEITGUISED'S 'CONCRETE MISPLOTS' ARE NOT ACCIDENTS OF MARGINAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE, BUT CONCRETE ART ON STEROIDS

Featured in the Swiss architectural magzine Hochparterre’s “Raumtraum” section, these visualizations of future architectures employ the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes.

Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as prototypes for mass-customization. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly. The concrete was set to the wrong parameters or scale. The printer module falsely translated a data set…

These misprints are the rejects of this early process, and they are now being used as shared homes by elderly people from the former squatter scene.

Concrete Misplots - Marginal archictures of the future by German designer Zeitguised (Click Images To Enlarge)

COMMENTARY:    I love the beauty of designs of all times, but when I first saw Zeitguised's "Concrete Misplots," I knew that I had write a piece about them in my blog.    

Zeitguised describes his monolithic "Concrete Misplots" as the random outcome of an accident in computerized design of the architecture of the future.  However, there is nothing really random in the art form itself.  

Concrete Misplots took some work on the part of Zeitguised.  We are so used to pouring concrete into slabs or using cement in stucco to cover the outside of homes, then adding some texture to give it surface tone, character and uniqueness, but Zeitguised is on the very outer edge of "concrete design," if there is such a thing.  

The textures in Zeitguised's Concrete Misplots are not minute or subtle, but thick, robust, undulating, powerful and definitely not uniform straight angles as we are accustomed to seeing, but everything still fits together whether its the stacked clay balls design of image #2, the deflated rubber inner tubes of image #4 or the undulating intestinal tract design of image #5.  All of it has form and purpose, so it is definitely not "misplotted" by any means.  This is true concrete art on steroids for lack of a better description.

I do hope that Zeitguised will not stop with just designing Concrete Misplots prints, but actually take his concrete art to the next level--building full-scale concrete housing that incorporate his concrete art form.   Certainly there must be a gifted architect out there who can colloborate with Zeitguised and build the real thing.  

Courtesy of Zeitguised in Behance Network   

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This is a new technique. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly.