Babel towers belong to another type of architecture. An architecture that remains forever unfinished. The state of unfinishedness creates a sense of lifelike presence. A metabolic unfinishedness. The invisible enemy of architecture is the force that erodes and decays, the embodiment of entropy, decay and destruction. It is the weather, thermal expansion, fire, natural disasters, organismic decomposers that batter the architectural structure. It is the force that turns an architectural structure into ruins that is architecture’s enemy, but by the same force, new lives and new constructions are created. The force that erodes and decays is the same force that grows. It beautifully echoes the mathematic concepts of the self- duality: the force that influences a system or structure that has the property of being equal to its opposite or reverse force, the force of decay is, in the example of fungal growth that gradually fractures a stone, a self-dual of the force of growth. 3 BABELS: growth and decay
This level is an open-world game featuring towers structures in different states of growth and decay, where growth creates solids and decay carves voids. Those forces are curves. Spiral, waves, and hyperbola. Their numerous permutations and combinations are the unseen forces that drive the solid and void. They are the genotypes of the architecture. The phenotype is generated by time. Remember when I was walking in the matrix of towers? Those babels can appear in numerous phenotypes with just a few genotypes. What Deleuzian becoming signifies, as Deleuze and Guattari argue, is a shift from one’s former identity in a difference of degree, rather than a difference in kind. 7
top: Minotaur standing in front of Babel Towers middle: Minotaur and tower formed by growth and decay.
Babel: game view. below: Sequential metamorphosis of Babels
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7 Grosz, Elizabeth A. Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth . Columbia University Press, 2020
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