' . . . it is a regime that Deleuze and Guattari would call 'matter-function'.
It is not a machine in the narrowly technological sense (i.e. an inert means
to an end, an applied technology), but exhibits machinic properties in a
diagrammatic sense (setting off multiple desires and frustrations, as basins
of attraction bifurcate into new patterns and open alternative possibilities).  
Through this machinic sensibility one can understand the sequence of
exercises, the recursive sets of materials and procedures, '

'Operational Architecture' R.E. Somol Inchoate

Students used both their research into the behaviour and site analysis of
their chosen site to develop an operational interior.

They created a system that, a) response to their chosen behaviour,
b) activates the object or objects in relation to the behaviour through
the use of existing service systems; heating/cooling, security, disposal, etc.
Other sources for locating systems are automobiles (all forms of transportation),
medical industry and all areas of production and manufacturing.

The students used the following the criteria for establishing their system:

• Sensory Input
• Behaviour: What does the input activate: why is this behaviour being created?
• Operation of System: body, pressure, heat, motor
• Media / Matter-Function / Expression - an effect that has an affect.
• Cause / Result

Through identifying what sensory input they wanted to use in relation to
their behaviour, they located various technologies from these systems to
develop their system.
They were to use their original site and all modifications to the site were
open to their discretion.