Tangled
Studio 701 Fall 2020
Instructor: Simon Kim
University of Pennsylvania
Partner: Jinghan He
The pandemic has intensified the labor inequality. Employees equipped with advanced technology have the privilege of working from home and thus stay safe from the pandemic whereas low income blue collar labors have to work physically and thus risk their health. In this project, we want to explore the technology segregation’s impact on labor inequality.
Secondly, this project experiments with the possibility of people living and working together with artificial intelligence. This is done with architectural design for the techno-bourgeoisie and techno-poletariat that is both human and non-human.
Layers of cables and pipes build up the artificial ground in which transportation and connection functions as natural as tree roots, and as unnatural as the speedy high-tech connections. The architecture becomes an artificial intelligence itself, with cables and neuron system filled the space, the building becomes a worker as well.
Material Studies with Spaghetti
