FIT
PROJECT OUTLINE
1) FIT, adj. and verb
• be in the right shape and size for
• of a suitable quality, standard, or
type to meet the required purpose
• join together to form a whole
• in good health, especially because of
regular physical exercise.
• sexually attractive
2) FIT, noun
• a sudden uncontrollable outbreak
of intense emotion, laughter, coughing, or
other action or activity
• a sudden attack of convulsions
and/or loss of consciousness,
typical of epilepsy and some other
medical conditions
Building upon the semantic duplicity of the
word, the project involves a series
of biopolitical platforms,
the formal structure
of which is stretched by a multitude
of overlapping dialectical oppositions :
release
horizontal
inclusive
continuous
formlessness
revolution
sameness
singular
positive
retention
vertical
exclusive
discontinuous
formal
fixity
difference
multiple
negative
...
They are materialised, out of digital files,
through the DIY (vs) industrial processes of :
• laser cutting
• 3D printing
(negative
(positive
horizontal
vertical
substractive)
additive)
The platforms,
as dispensers and display props, by
• the contents they distribute and display
(narrative, nutritional or human)
• the way they distribute and display,
sort and dispose of these contents,
are embeded with the power to
performatively produce / engineer bodies,
gender and social formations.
At scales simultaneously ranging
from urbanism to architecture,
industrial design, commercial display
and biological engineering,
they are self-representating,
self-containing,
and tend towards a tautological,
dystopian entropic model
of the body / world.
The platforms
• a set of furniture-scale mimetic platforms
of comparable materials and shapes
With their cellular structure, they constitute
• a cyborg organism
• a dispersed body
• an architectural / landscape project
The platforms their loose surfaces
to diverse objects and substances
They are inter-connected by
• their fluctuating function
• networks (wires, glass fibers, etc)
• A raised, extruded platform of acrylic
and 3D printed concrete elements
It is
• an architecture model
• a medicine / food dispenser
As social constructs
inherited from decades of darwinian economics
are naturalized in the organic fluidity
of late biomorphic starchitecture and seasteads,
The object figures a symbiotic double structure with
Oversized living / working / storage space revolving around,
and concealg a structural core of cluttered individual cells.
In a paradoxical gesture, the scheme at once :
• promises social / programmatic integration
• builts economic disparities into architectural form.
• A vertical, transparent structure
of laser-cut acrylic
It is a assemblage
of horizontal shelves around a vertical shaft.
a
• furniture piece
• architectural model
• recycling machine :
It dispenses fluids and pow(d)er supplies on its shelves...
...and lets USERS
discard of items
in its lubricated
structural shaft
[structural detail]
• A population
of seemingly identical
3D-printed atomisers
Members are
copies without an original.
At once individals and couples,
they contain :
- Fragrances OR/AND Hormones
- Internally OR/AND Externally
- On the Bottom OR/AND Top.
[rough black finish]
They come
in skin-color, black, white, or translucent,
with a rough or smooth finish
Upon simple rotation,
they TRANSITION
• from FtM
...
...
• from MtF
[screw]
Coupling / inverting / revolving / mirroring,
they question the gendered narratives implemented
in product design and social constructs.
inpenetrable core
no interiority, pure exteriority
non penetrating
inpenetrable core
protected, hidden interioriority
penetrating
penetrable core
no interiority, pure exteriority
non penetrating
inpenetrable core
no interiority, pure exteriority
side penetrating
penetrable core
exposed interiority
side penetrating
• a set of 3D printed skin-color ceramic
containers / cups
Grouped in geometrical
formations / populations
or solitary,
a set of dosers / contain
drugs and meal replacements
Reminiscent of a
corporate city structure
• self-cancelling logo
FIT
FIT
FIT
Recurrent on the project, the brand logotype,
made of two overlapping complementary parts,
will eventually cancel itelf
• the materials scattered on the platforms
and in the containers
POWDERS
• drugs
• proteins
• meal replacement
• minerals
• makeup
LIQUIDS AND GELS
• lubrificants
• silicon objects
• sweat makeup
•liquid meal replacement
• artificial hormones
• creals
LIGHT AND NETWORKS
- LED lights strings
-glassfiber
• electrical wires
©
Benjamin Blaquart
Pierre de Brun