Smith & Clarkson

'Transience Works Against Assimilation and the Environment' poses an architectural superstructure forging connections between the built environment and its functional/dis-functional use of technology. Taking themes of utopia, surveillance and potentiality of habitable space to create a hyper-architectural structure, a byproduct of a time where digital technology has indicated a potential way to overcome the limits of the prevalent industrial model, and the more commercially viable it has become, the more tenable the promise it makes of its compliant structures. Paul Virilio wrote in his essay 'The Third Interval'

'The urbanization of real time is in fact first the urbanization of one's own body plugged into various interfaces prostheses that make the super equipped able-bodied person almost the the exact equivalent of the motorized and wired disabled person.'

Smith & Clarkson endeavor to investigate the potentiality of failure in contemporary technologies and the implications they have on architectural formations and social systems. Concurrently exploring Sol LeWitt's conclusion, from 'Sentences on Contemporary art, that; 'Ideas can be works of art, they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.' The hyper-architectural structure will become a prototype for a conceptual means for future living in the repercussions of the inherent failures of architecture and technologies, present and future.