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March 5, 2013

NCR-08 [Architecture]:Instructions

Adhocracy participants reveal their projects as a set of instructions for the “Architecture” issue guest edited by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism.
Occupy for a Self-Shaped City, Open Structures, Ik Zoek Asiel. How to Seek Asylum in the Netherlands, How to start your own Stratigraphic Manufactury?


New City Reader at Urbanrise Workshop- Athens

Occupy for a Self-Shaped City by Lorenza Baroncelli
La Bodega is the only occupied space in Colombia. Inhabited by unpredictable and traditionally hidden subjectivities, it is a disputed space in the pre-existing urban fabric of Bogotá that hosts instances and projects experimenting new models for the city. The story of La Bodega demonstrates how the experience of occupation is possible and replicable; it is the story of its inhabitants and illuminates how occupation can spark more than urban transformation, becoming an opportunity for change and growth of single individuals. It’s also the story of the abandoned buildings in the center of Bogotá, and how they can be re-opened and transformed.

Five instructions to occupy a building
1. Search an abandoned building in a part of your town that you consider interesting.
2. Make a first visit (possibly overnight) to check the condition of the building and verify at the land registry who is the owner of the building.
3. Change the lock of the door a few days before you come in and never admit to have changed it.
4. Set a date and move inside (it is your decision to publicize it or not), and be extremely careful not to let the police enter.
5. Use the space to intercept the changing needs in the area and use your creativity to invent unexpected and innovative solutions. Don’t shut yourself in the building but look, learn and nurture the energies in the territory. Tell the people you interact with that they can do the same.

Open Structures by Thomas Lomme
The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative MECCANO? To which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures. It hereby envisions a new standard for sustainable design that facilitates the re-use of parts and components and allows us to build things together.
The OS ecosystem is built up according the Wikipedia model, where different people all contribute to a bigger thing (rather than each building their own thing) with this difference that in the OS system people don’t contribute articles, but parts.

Instructions
Everybody who wants can contribute to the OS project by adding their own modular parts or structures on to the OS parts database.
1. Draw an Open Structures (OS) grid. The OS grid is built up out of 4x4cm squares. The borders of these squares mark the cutting lines, its diagonals mark the assembly points and its enclosed inner circles define common diameters. (for more info go to openstructures.net > how-to manual > OS grid)
2. Design and produce a part from the OS grid. In order for these new parts to be compatible with the existing ones they need to be designed from the OS grid (also see: ‘How to apply the OS grid?’). And because all resulting designs are conceived as interdependent, dynamic puzzles, they should be designed for disassembly.
To streamline this design process a number of common design guidelines have been developed. These are rules of thumb that need to be considered while designing any OS part or structure.
3. Upload and trade your part on the OS database
Once parts are designed and produced they can be uploaded on to the online OS database (www.openstructures.net).
This database is the digital marketplace for all parts and structures that were created by applying the OS grid. It also serves as a central sharing point for the whole OS community. All part designs can be up- or downloaded in order to be discussed, reviewed, ranked, copy/pasted and traded among its users. This vivid exchange of parts will allow the parent structures to adapt, expand or shrink according to current needs. It will also stimulate continuous upgrades over time through a phased interchange of parts.

Ik Zoek Asiel. How to Seek Asylum in the Netherlands by Ben Landau
The plight of an asylum seeker in a foreign country is intensified by reduced access to credible information. Future immigrants rely on a rumor mill fuelled by family and friends, encountering ex-aggerated anecdotes and hearsay. This experience lies in stark contrast to the way citizens of the developed world plan their vacations, using up-to-date facts from the Internet, newspapers and travel guides. Ik zoek asiel negotiates this patchwork of official statements and first-hand experiences in the form of a collective commons guide to seeking asylum in the Netherlands. The content of the guide, taken from a range of sources, can be updated online, then printed and handed out by activists and immigrants. Ik zoek asiel synthesizes the advantages of digital collaboration and access, physical publication, and social networks of distribution.

Instructions
1 To take part in this project, go to www.ikzoekasiel.net
2 Follow the link to the pdf through dropbox or issuu. Print it off in a booklet form.
3 Give or send it to someone who will find it useful or share the internet link. Through online or printed medium, we can share information about the immigration procedures and experiences of asylum seekers in the Netherlands.

How to start your own Stratigraphic Manufactury, Unfold
Unfold Design Studio in collaboration with Jonathan Keep (UK), Eran Gal-Or (Israel) and Mustafa Canyurt (Turkey)
In Stratigraphic Manufactury, Unfold explores methods of manufacturing and distributing design in the dawning era of digital production. Stratigraphic Manufactury is a new model for the distribution and digital manufacturing of porcelain, which includes local small manufacturing units that are globally connected. One that embraces local production variations and influences.”

Instructions
1. Build yourself an open source 3D printer, find the plans for example at reprap.org
2. Hack your 3D printer so that it can print ceramics, follow the free instructions on unfoldfab.com.
3. Get in touch with Unfold to discuss using their digital blueprints for a Stratigraphic Manufactury in your home town.
4. Print an inventory of Unfold’s Stratigraphic designs, use your local clay, colors or glazes.
5. Now we can sell these designs to your local community.
6. There is no step 6. Welcome to the Stratigraphic Manufactury network, a distributed porcelain factory.

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