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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

Bathyscaphe

A bathyscaphe is a free-diving self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic bathysphere design. Bathyscaphe is designed by Swiss-born professor Auguste Piccard for exploring the ocean depths.1 We were told that human life has a close relationship with water, under the curiosity of whether could human return to water. In the 1960s, pioneering missions were taking place in order to explore the “underwater fantasy”. They were facing the challenge of adapting their body to an aggressive environment, therefore, scientists were dedicated to finding ways to build up an envelope which can help people stay underwater as long as possible, in the meantime, as comfortable as possible. In the following years, scientists have come up with systematic scientific innovations, with a deeper distance a bathyscaphe went down, internally, the equipment became more “complete”. It seems the return to water is so promising, such as the inventor of bathyscaphe said: “During the past ten years so, most governments have come to realized the importance of oceanography; moreover, most oceanographers are convinced that many observations and measurement can be really accurate and reliable only if they are made deep in the ocean instead of, as in classical times, ‘up there’”.2 With the knowledge of these early practices, Conshelf I and II attempted to create human colonies at depths that were never reached before, although Conshelf series was not successful, the bathyscaphe was a good start.

1 Brand,V. “Submersibles—Manned and Unmanned.” In South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 7. July, 2008.
2 Jean-Michel Cousteau, Claude Millet, “Man Under the Sea” in Architectural Design, No. 4 (April (1969), pp.2017.