Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU

The Morning Line Scale Model, 2007

Painted Museum Board, Plastic, Model
42 x 118 x 77,5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Let’s start at the beginning, with a new kind of brick. A universal bit. Proposed here is The Morning Line, a gesture, a holo-tectonic system. Geometry and expression are united. Infinitely self-scaling: modular units increase or decrease around a fixed ratio but can expand or contract in any size or direction. Interactive in multiple ways; the content grows and adapts as the structure changes both physically and in information depth over time. All components are interchangeable, demountable, portable and recyclable. (Matthew Ritchie)
Architecture is an inherently destructive act. It’s the very physical breakdown of materials into smaller components that are standardized in order to recompose into new stable structures. Computation is also destructive, it breaks things down into language, an abstract and codified system to build and rebuild from the smallest components—ones and zeroes. Re-composition can become automated. (Aranda\Lasch)

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU,