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2017
THE LAST HOUSE ON MULHOLLAND COMPETITION
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA|
W/ MEGAN GOTSCH

The algorithm age has manifest a frontier beyond the materially stagnant physical spaces of a previous century, and before the inexact and perpetually mutable digital language. By way of the Machine, fibres of technology weave into the fabrics of construction. A fortress for the revolution – the organism of domestic autonomy is your host.

This proposal for the Last House on Mulholland seeks to envision the influence of digital automation and global interconnectivity in the human environment. It imagines an autonomous and image-based architecture free from the constraints of program and tangible structure. The human occupant becomes migrant rather than master; such as in the science fiction writing of H.P. Lovecraft.

This conceptual exploration nearly 10 years ago pre-dated the rise of AI - it did not fully foresee the ubiquity of technological mass surveillance and an economy which has stripped ownership and agency from the consumer via subscription models to ever-changing and ever-pervasive technological creep. It did however, speculate about a ‘placeless’ architecture which may be fully decoupled from form, structure and individual expression.