'Prosthetic House'
An experimental sketch design 
for a french surgeon's house, in a
natural landscape near Paris.

Ranging from urban speculation to electro-tectonic, these experimental projects address the problem of production of architecture in the context of digital technologies. Degre Zero is a research space intended to present original projects dealing with Architecture, Urbanism and Design.

'Liquid Server '
A design for a Dokumenta institute
in Kassel (Germany) by
Oliver Dering. 

We think that with the new means of communication, the new systems of information distribution, one senses an optical floatation, a deconstruction of classical spatiality, where the visual detaches from the geometric, where space is no longer comprehended as/in straight lines. The look (le regard) no longer rests on a spatial plane as a point of deep focus, but flees upon sinuous perspectival lines, targeting infomation on a bias, on curved trajectories.
The age of geometrics is eclipsed by the age of touristics, which, lifted from its sociological connotations, seems to incarnate a new fictionnal state, almost mythological, of the body. This dissolution, in as much it affects urban space and its representations, must lead us to rethink our social, economic structures... projecting them onto this new retina critique which is cyberspace, to be able at last to dream political space, dream politics... 
In-and ex-teriorities are the notions which define the status of our body in space. This traditional opposition seems no longer valid at the moment where the present and the past merge into the same surface : a presence at once perpetual and artificial. The electronic net permits us to be at the same time users and integral parts of the chai of production of information, in a sort of condition of total reversibility of conditions, and in a putting in doubt of social identities. 
Cyberspace would then be this highly improbable space, de-situated, diphanous, essentially androgenous, which then rearticulates thi idea of difference. 
For the notion of space we prefer that of spacing, for that of distance that of the thickness of information.