The Nature of Strange Architectural Objects Within an Entangled Ecology

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DC I/O 2021 Poster by FADHIL FADHIL.


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Abstract

As architectural objects start to gain more autonomy in the architectural design process, the focus starts expanding to include computing objects’ correlation. The thesis will investigate the intrinsic qualities architectural object through four different instinctive categories which are autonomy, fabrication, intelligence, and ecology. The first aspect being autonomy, it will be explored through the lens of object-oriented ontology or speculative realism highlighting the importance of peculiar aesthetics in creating space. In addition, introducing fabrication as an essential element to initiate and enhance a direct dialogue and a feedback loop between the digital modeling techniques and manufacturing. In this case, one aspect will inform the other generating an architectural model they rely heavily in computation on one hand and prefabrication on the other. Furthermore, the thesis will examine architectural objects coordination both in the digital and the physical sense thought objects entanglement. In this case, architectural objects relationships will no longer be looked at in a traditional sense but rather through a constant dialogue between the physical asset and the digital asset. Object entanglement is a computationally driven concept that is influenced by the concept of quantum mechanics. It is meant to enhance connectivity among various architectural objects both in the physical world and the digital world. Lastly, after applying the previous three conditions, we start to see first signs of architectural objects intelligence from a geometric standpoint technological standpoint. This intelligence will lead creating advanced architectural assemblies where all architectural objects participating in the assembly will constantly be in a nonlocal interconnected mesh.

Presentation

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Conference Poster

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Keywords

Autonomy, Fabrication, Intelligence, Ecology, Aesthetics

Reference

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47330/DCIO.2021.DMPO9826

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