{"id":366,"date":"2013-09-16T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/organicism\/?p=366"},"modified":"2013-09-16T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:06:10","slug":"slime-mold-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/organicism\/2013\/09\/16\/slime-mold-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime Mold\u2014Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Venice is suffering from many major issues that include population displacement, escalating living costs, and a dwindling availability of affordable local housing.\u00a0 This is directly a result of the influx between the permanent residents of Venice and the seasonal tourism, and how this is affecting the struggle \u201cto acquire valuable resources of space and commodities\u201d.\u00a0 In this example the use of slime mold as a self-sustaining organism is applied to the urban fabric of Venice. Due to this flooding of tourism and the tides, the project utilizes the rooftops to create links between Venice\u2019s isolated communities.\u00a0 The adaptive lifestyle of slime mold changes based on available resources, and can be applied to the similar in Venice, however the result would hopefully be \u201cfruiting bodies emerge to ensure the reproduction of the next generation.\u201d\u00a0 From there the project attempts to create a prefabricated system that replicates the membranes of the slime mold, leaving Venice with a easily changing self sustaining system that could possibly pull them out of there current adversity.\u00a0 I would like to take this concept and explore how it can be utilized in other cities.\u00a0 Could this be a start to the idea of how the scientific aspects of nature can be incorporated to create a system that still maintains the essence of what architecture is and can do (link people and communities).<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Stefan Castellucci<\/i><\/p>\n

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RESEARCH RESOURCES<\/b><\/p>\n

Gissen, David.\u00a0A More Monumental, Non-Naturalistic Environment.<\/i>\u00a051-53<\/p>\n

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Lima, Antonietta Iolanda.\u00a0Soleri: architecture as human ecology<\/i>. New York, N.Y.: Monacelli Press, 2003<\/p>\n

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Ruy, David. Randomness and Irreducible Complexity<\/i>. Tarp Architecture Manual 10, \u201cCoding Parameters\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Biomimicry 3.8.” Biomimicry 3.8. http:\/\/biomimicry.net (accessed September 15, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venice is suffering from many major issues that include population displacement, escalating living costs, and a dwindling availability of affordable local housing.\u00a0 This is directly a result of the influx between the permanent residents of Venice and the seasonal tourism, and how this is affecting the struggle \u201cto acquire valuable resources of space and commodities\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n