Philip Beesley Released Outdoor decoration Forest

Architectural Biennale exhibition was held in Venice 2010. “Alive” artificial landscape of Toronto architect Philip Beesley, in collaboration with the director of engineering systems Rob Gorbet and chemist Rachel Armstrong from the University of Waterloo has developed for the Canadian pavilion an interactive installation mechanistic Hylozoic Ground, which is a “living” acrylic timber.

“Martian” thickets formed by ten thousand light transparent parts, equipped with sensitive sensors, microprocessors, kinetic valves, pumps and filters diffuse that causes the artificial environments pulsate, glow and breathe, filling the air with moisture and beneficial trace elements, and they even help to realize the most complex hybrid metabolic processes.

Project-research of Beesley was provoked by Hylozoism, ancient philosophical concept that recognizes the inspiration of substance (either by itself, or through participation in its operation of the world soul). And if the philosophers of the XVII century tried to remove the fundamental difference between inorganic and living nature of rhetoric, then Beesley made an attempt to reconstruct the idea of mechanistic.