8-Bit Architecture

In the same way that buildings are diversified along the lines of typology, function, and style, automation systems need to be designed for the places and circumstances in which they are used. 8-bit Architecture is a design philosophy that strives to find architecture appropriate to twenty first century artifacts without denying their alien presence.

8-bit Architecture moulds technology into what neither architecture nor technology could be alone. 8-bit Architecture is the smart house that thinks about itself. 8-bit Architecture is the SpaceLab renovation the engineers never imagined. 8-bit Architecture is the anti-sublime; a disciplined higher form of technology that forces surveillance technologies into submission. 8-bit Architecture is a constrained utopia that seeks exceptions to automated convince technologies by making the cost of comforts apparent. At its limit, 8-bit Architecture needs no information processing technology at all. 8-bit Architecture is uncomfortable. Its methods include contradiction and juxtaposition it lives where weeds, magnets and iron meet, and where tennis courts are living rooms.

External Project Links:
Subtle Technologies 2006 Conference
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