venice architecture biennale 08 preview: asymptote (update)

earlier this month designboom gave a preview of the installation 'prototyping the future: three houses for
the subconscious' by asymptote (hani rashid + lise anne couture) which will be on display at the
venice architecture biennale 2008.

conceived and manufactured digitally 'prototyping the future: three houses for the subconscious' is comprised of
three large fiberglass objects which are each meant to express forms of sophistication which are a result of
high velocity, acceleration and speed, fluid dynamics ballistics and mathematically modeled form. the objects on
display are separated by large panels of reflective mirrored glass which reveal the architectural possibilities that
result when a form is simultaneously subjected to optical flux, the interferences of perception and resultant
ambiguity of meaning. they act as agents of spatial interference, which absorb and retransmit the space which
surrounds them into textural and ambient constructions with the potential for occupancy.

'what we are showing at the venice biennale is a piece conceived of and thought about as a potential architecture

performance of architecture in the making.' - HR

'prototyping the future: three houses for the subconscious' will be on show inside the arsenale as part of the
exhibition 'out there: architecture beyond building' curated by aaron betsky.

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