Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

Attraction

Attraction: something interesting or enjoyable that people want to visit, see, or do : a performer who people want to see. : an entertainment offered to the public.1 The Eden Project is considered an attraction in Cornwall, England. It is a collection of adjoining domes that contains thousands of plant species, creating an artificial biomes. These domes are constructed from tubular steel with a plastic skin—ETFE, it allows for light to pass though with a relatively low heat gain. Eden Project aimed to “provide a sustainable environment, maximizing the use of renewal energy,”2 in the meantime, it can be considered as a successful environmental educational project. Under the background of catastrophes have faithfully appeared as sublime interruptions within the progress of normal human existence, Eden Project stands out as a completely new monumental architecture, responding to the crisis and present to the public.

1: merriam-webster.com, Accessed April 28, 2015.
2: Chris Barrett, Andy Bascombe, Mark Bostock, Hugh Collis, Geoff Farnham, and Alistair Guthrie, “Creating the Eden Environment,” in The ARUP Journal., (January 2002), 4.