Cultivating the Erratic: Architectural representation and materialisation after the digital turn
Doktorsavhandling, 2022
Spanning in scope from design to technology to theory, the thesis is developed through a combination of analytical enquiry and design driven research. The design works included, Erratic and Completions, explore materialisation and representation against a critical review of key concepts associated with the ‘digital turn’ in architecture during the 1990s and 2000s. The thesis interrogates how those concepts have been developed and challenged in the decades after this turn. Key to the analysis is a critical enquiry about the nature of architectural representation and the significance of theoretical frameworks gleaned from other areas of enquiry, including materialist and post-digital thinking. The implications of the design work are explored by positioning physics simulation and 3d-scanning as means of representation through an interlacing of thinking from such frameworks with detailed accounts of technical apparatuses involved in conception and production.
Overall, the thesis aims to build a new position for architectural conception and production. It argues that the means of representation that facilitate architectural design have agency, and that simulation and scanning offer a contemporary context in which the effects of such agencies can be productively observed. This opens a disciplinary discussion on issues of projection, translation, and codification and their role in shaping the architectural imagination. The discussion also extends beyond such architectural concerns and into political critique, as practices, technicalities, and histories of representation condition how we view the world, how we operate in it, and might even modify how we view ourselves.
Agency
Physics simulation
Materialisation
Design driven research
3d-scanning
Representation
Författare
Daniel Norell
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Arkitekturens teori och metod
Erratic: The Material Simulacra of Pliable Surfaces
Fusion, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Education and research in Computer aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe),;Vol. 2(2014)p. 145-152
Paper i proceeding
Completions: Reuse and Object Representations
Distributed Proximities, Proceedings of the 40th conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA),;Vol. 1(2020)p. 446-455
Paper i proceeding
Geometries with agency: mathematics of form revisited
Architectural Research Quarterly,;Vol. 25(2021)p. 255-265
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift
Noise Control: Designing with Entropic Processes
Berman, Ila and Edward Mitchell (eds.), New Constellations / New Ecologies: Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), San Francisco, CA, USA, March 21-24, 2013,;(2013)p. 283-288
Paper i proceeding
Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Innovation och entreprenörskap
Ämneskategorier
Arkitektur
ISBN
978-91-7905-678-0
Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 5144
Utgivare
Chalmers
SB3-L112, Sven Hultins gata 8, Chalmers
Opponent: Professor Jonathan Hale, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom