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Metamorph exhibition, Venice Biennale 2004

Kurt W. Forster, director of the 9th architecture exhibition within the Venice Biennale (more info), has invited P&R to participate in the segment named Surfaces in the Corderie dell' Arsenale. A project awarded at a competition under the title Surround DataHome in Tokyo 2001 introduced the idea of corporeality in close relation to electronics through the possibility of implanting dwelling urban acupuncture units into the dense and defined present-day environment. Reality-Show Para-Site Houses was created through the folding of a single integrated element and fabulated more upon the principles of Internet than classical urbanistic science. As the billboards of everyday they instantly display the happenings inside the totally transparent interior thus destroying the last bourgeois sanctuary, that of privacy, since "there is no intimate act that is not accessible through the Internet".