Some notes on the production of Digital Form

Dec 22, 02:41 am

Some notes on the production of Digital Form

Some notes on the production of Digital Form
The modeling abstract machine
”... Since the Renaissance, architectural theory has always distinguished between structure and ornament, and has set forth the hierarchy between them. In contemporary discourse, this dichotomy has been eliminated. One can unleash within a digital environment a population of virtual desires that varies from the beautiful to the grotesque. The new tools of topological procedures allow operations such as stretching without tearing, and folding without gluing, preserve only a set of very abstract properties invariant. At a larger scale this generates the development of an urban environment as a dynamic space of flows and ‘smart’ zones where continuous topological surfaces connect exterior and interior spaces, functional programs and infrastructures. The emphasis of the exploration is for morphological complexity whereby the construction and selection of rules that produce specific effects is motivated by aesthetic and plastic sensibilities. For the first time, architecture is genuinely searching for complexity of this formal type in order to keep in touch to that of the city of the networks and systems and the intricacy of culture and vagueness of globalization.” George Katodrytis
Images and Project by GEORGE KATODRYTIS / STUDIONOVA: