2016年3月8日星期二

Week 1: Analogue to Digital



The process of creation in architecture to day assumes that a conventional set of projections, at various scales from site to detail, adds up to complete, tangible idea of a building. They are expected to be absolutely unambiguous to avoid possible interpretations, and to function as efficient neutral instruments and capacity for accurate transcription. The architectural profession generally has identified architectural drawing with such projective tools. Also the technological world has generally embraced the pragmatic capacity of architectural drawing over its potential to construe a symbolic order. In today paperless offices and studios, Bradley Starkey believe that it is crucial to reflect more broadly on the uses and functions of paper in the facture of architecture itself and the act of drawing on paper does not simply involve an automatic transcription onto surfaces of ideas that are already clear in the architect’s mind.  To bring digital outputs from being simply ‘analogical and replicas of paper representation’ it need to understand how the materiality of paper has interfaced with the intellectual activity of architectural facture in generating anagogical demonstrations.

From the articles “Transgression from drawing to making” Bob Sheil also shows that the change from drawing to making has caused the sequence of process that take ideas into the physical world, and his work can now convert between representation and generation in real world. In William J Mitchell’s article, “Design worlds and fabrication Machines”, he summary that architects are increasingly taking advantage of computer and software to support complex derivation processes, CAD or CAM fabrication machines make it highly advantageous to invest in the production. By using the new tool designer can more efficient exploration of familiar design worlds. As a result of the afforded by the CAD and CNC export geometric or such as Stereolithgraphy and Selective laser sintering, digital fabrication processes provide the way to fabricate customized objects with lower cost.

Sheil, B. (2005). "Transgression from drawing to making." Arq : Architectural Research Quarterly 9(1): 20-32.

Mitchell, W. (2003). Design Worlds and Fabrication Machines. Architecture in the digital age : design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon Press: 73-80.

Frascari, M. (2007). A reflection on paper and its virtues within the material and invisible factures of architecture. From models to drawings : imagination and representation in architecture. M. Frascari, J. Hale and B.Starkey. London ; New York, Routledge: 23-33.

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