How does our built society begin to cope with a world where its reality is morphed into fantasy? Technologies have the ability not only to portray our world as a replicate in 3D modeled space, where physical limitations do not exist, but to also allow for these realities to be reimagined to the user’s aesthetic and interpretation of creativity. As this synthesis morphs, these objects reach an individual and intimate understanding between itself and its creator, a true multidimensional reverie. With the progression of technological programming, in conjunction with advancing architectural construction, these forms generated in the free-floating 3D realm are released into our consciousness. The artificial structures begin to manifest themselves in our real world at the cost of the natural objects that surround them. Here lies the epidemic of architectural realism. Contemporary shapes initially aided by parametric designs lead to ominous morphological forms that hold no substance to the past. The constant churning and spewing of formalities that break our natural realm lose their spatial qualities, and fall one dimensional. Without visual reference or scale we are left floating in the midst of uncertainty. What this process of creation is capable of is presenting to an audience a physical reality, a concise existing perception of an idea. that could not be obtained without digital representations. “A Vision of Systematic Disorder” addresses these aspects through the juxtapositions between what is real and not real, between what is beautiful and what is sublime. As subjective and questionable as it may be, a more classical conception of beauty might claim that something is beautiful because it represents a correct and coherent arrangement of parts into a whole. Unlike the beautiful, which is generally positive and pleasurable, the sublime is impressive and awe inspiring, a feeling or experience resulting from an interaction with a given object. Through these digital mediums, distorted realities can be manipulated at will.
“A Vision of Systematic Disorder” speaks to the visual process of undoing rudimentary architectural forms in order to create aesthetically pleasing, quasi-computational forms. The structure was conceived through strict measuring and laser scanning of a warehouse facility in the Bronx, New York. This numeric data was then physically modeled, down to the finite details of the beams and trusses. Seeking abstracted elegance, the perfected framework was put through a series of severe distortions until an unparalleled formation was reached.
Panelists:
Moderated by Ferda Kolatan
Neyran Turan
Kutan Ayata
Mark Foster Gage
Karel Klein
Andrew Saunders
Neyran Turan
Kutan Ayata
Mark Foster Gage
Karel Klein
Andrew Saunders
