Waterworlds Studio X

Forms of simultaneous unity and disunity:

As the second year studio at DIA expands into a full year, Studio X takes the opportunity to explore deeper and formally more abstract topics, within the Algorithmic Design agenda.

This year's agenda is to examine unified and continuous compositions as a starting point, establish rules and geometrical controls, while later concentrating more diversified system compositions that propose radical shifts, breaks and discontinuities within the established framework. we are looking to discover a world perfection, beyond the suffocation of prediction and patterned growth, we seek the suprising, we seek moments of "free-ness"; those instances where unity becomes discontinuous and separated-ness becomes a continuous to unify.

The students are asked to select a site in the sea or the ocean and define a brief for a floating city or habitation or facility that allows them a range of options in establishing a meaningful organization for their architectural experimentations;

The studio is complemented by workshops and seminars on Cybernetics, scripting and rendering techniques.