::the obscuration of an exterior wall by the tenacious willingness of vertically challenged plants to bond, survive and flourish against all odds, [thereby gracing the building envelope to encompass more than a uni-faceted function...]
[location:: Musée du Quai Branly, a new museum exhibiting primitive art and artifacts from non-European cultures, designed by Jean Nouvel (2005-07), and the "Mur Végétal" by Patrick Blanc (2007) on Quai Branly, 75007 Paris]
*from ZY-XIN's ZYGOSPHERIC HYBRIDARCHITECTURAL TERMINOLOGY
[originally published in the september/october, 2007 issue of FRONT journal of contemporary art and ideas]
