The cleanroom is a paradigm par excellence of a sterile environment: a hyper-controlled space where every micro particle is a potential threat. Used in high-precision industries, where even minimal contamination can compromise production processes or product quality, it operates through a delicate balance of constantly regulated factors. Constant monitoring and regulation of factors such as airflow, humidity, and temperature help prevent the introduction of contaminants.
By introducing the notion of Sterile Environments, the sonic-visual narration broadens the concept of enclosed and sterile space, showing how these highly regulated structures are balancing on internal forces,making them vulnerable to external intruders such dust or bacterias. Although the functions are different, both architectures embody the idea of controlled environments designed to shelter and nurture something – a semiconductor or a plant – in a delicate balance between isolation and exposure.
Team: Antonia Aschenbrenner, Christos Voutsas, Gigi Totaro
Course leader: Bahar Noorizadeh
Film Locations
Aixtron, Aachen
Phoodfarm, Eindhoven
Special thanks to: Prof. Dr.-Ing Michael Heuken and Beatrice Maione