In these strange times where we must find communion in isolation and where our sense of touch is denied, how do we fulfill our innate desires to connect with each other? This film is the culmination of a student architecture project, which explores this question and the virtual realm, by proposing speculative 'body devices' which may simulate senses and space onto our bodies. The film blends the techniques of installation, projection, photogrammetry, performance and poetry to tell the stories of how people may come together in a post-pandemic future, of how 'humanity' may be attained from 'the machine'. We hope you enjoy 'Humanitas Ex Machina'.

HUMANITAS EX MACHINA [HUMANITY FROM THE MACHINE]

In these strange times where we must find communion in isolation and where our sense of touch is denied, how do we fulfill our innate desires to connect with each other?

Secluded Stillness is a short film in diptych form, shot in Adega Baía da Arruda, a project by the Portuguese-Swiss architecture firm Barão-Hutter, built in Pico Island in 2017. The film intertwines the house/cellar with the unique context of the island, whose volcanic rock is transported indoors. Through sounds, textures, and the creatures, we come close to the experience that is to stay in this black space of seclusion and contemplation of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a document about a modern shelter, of its light, its voluptuousness, which is as much withdrawn from as it is open to the outside. The shelter, which in its original concept has a survival purpose, is here elevated to an idea of living. ‘Here words end, here ends the world that I know; here, in this tremendous isolation where artificial life is reduced to the minimum, only eternal things endure.’ (Ilhas Desconhecidas, Raul Brandão)

SECLUDED STILLNESS

A construction photographer with a taste for explosions and mythical creatures is about to leave the last building that he was assigned to document. The building is nearly completed and he has decided to capture one iconic shot of it before leaving. Exploring the building by following his moving body, the narrator reads the photographer’s conflicting ideas on the relationship between the built environment and its images, especially the entanglement of modern architecture and narrative cinema. Landing is commissioned by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and shot at one of their building projects in Seoul. The script is based on hour-long conversations with twenty-six architects and engineers who had worked on the building’s design. Daekwang Lee, the building’s photographer plays himself and the film is narrated by the architect David Chipperfield.

LANDING

A construction photographer with a taste for explosions and mythical creatures is about to leave the last building that he was assigned to document.

In 2019 architect Adam Richards revealed Nithurst Farm, his self-designed family home in the South Downs National Park. We’re pleased to share a new film made for The Modern House exploring the far-reaching ideas and references that informed the convention-defying design of the house, as well as the intimate realities of daily life in the space, one year on.

THE MODERN HOUSE: NITHURST FARM

The Modern House exploring the far-reaching ideas and references that informed the convention-defying design of the house, as well as the intimate realities of daily life in the space, one year on.

In 2015, Berlin received thousands of refugees overnight. To accommodate them, new types of refugee camps called "Tempohomes" were constructed and new typologies of shelter were designed. In this short documentary, the notion of the refugee camp as a space of care and control is explored and gives a provocative perspective on the meaning of shelters today, and how their issues are linked to everyday architecture in cities and the production of mass housing. By juxtaposing the initial design of shelters to refugees rearrangements of space, the documentary questions the role of architecture: how can we offer displaced populations better conditions to dwell? Can shelters be spaces of care without control?? How can architecture empower people to express their culture, background and identities in camps and beyond? Within these camps, how did refugees navigate the meanings of a home? and how did the camp managers respond to refugees appropriations? The film 13 Square Meter weaves a tapestry of contemporary topics that deal with the ideas of displacement, space, and architecture while opening up the discussion on the similarities and differences between refugees shelter design and the production of modernist mass housing in cities.

13 SQUARE METERS

The film 13 Square Meter weaves a tapestry of contemporary topics that deal with the ideas of displacement, space, and architecture while opening up the discussion on the similarities and differences between refugees shelter design and the production of modernist mass housing in cities.

NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India. Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometres per day under the Indian government's Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) program. The program aims to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working-class neighbourhoods, and nomadic herders. It is crisscrossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors.

NOT JUST ROADS

NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India.

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