- Title
- Digit mat(t)ers: process of normalization in architectural design
- Creator
- Zavoleas, Yannis
- Relation
- Surface/EΠΙϕANEIA: Digital Materiality and the New Relation Between Depth and Surface p. 221-229
- Publisher
- Athens Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The digital medium suggests a material reduction of reality; therefore a quest for its materiality is founded on an apparent paradox. Still, architectural design describes a gradual concretion of form, whereby rudimentary ideas of no particular substance are solidified to a realistic study and then to an architectural edifice. Each step of the process is about adding material characteristics to a project, which goes from being essentially abstract to being explicitly solid. Hence, abstraction is descriptive of the intermediate phases to which the processes of design and construction are typically broken down. In that respect, abstraction is not a sole characteristic of the digital medium; rather, it is an aid for the exploration of qualities related to structure, also holding information about elements of spatial organization and support. This paper compares the advantages of abstraction in the digital and the analogue production means in architectural design, especially in relation to processes of normalization, also to a variety of systems, structures and types of order.
- Subject
- architecture; architectural design; digital medium; abstraction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1353520
- Identifier
- uon:31111
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789609489379
- Language
- eng
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