DIMENSIONAL PALIMPSEST
Academic Year, 2018 - 2019
Thesis Work
Advisor: Doug Jackson
Thesis Work
Advisor: Doug Jackson
Thesis Statement:
The world we occupy puts precedence on replacement and renewal. This constant cycle disregards the value of the preceding items and their inherent beauty.
The world we occupy puts precedence on replacement and renewal. This constant cycle disregards the value of the preceding items and their inherent beauty.
This thesis aims to challenge the notions of this “hyper-replacement”, and bring forth an opportunity to engage with these fading temporal qualities. Creating architectural techniques that respond to previously uninhabitable spaces provokes an acknowledgment of the passing of time.
By proposing a unique, yet reverential, relationship between a new inhabitance and the aged context, new spatial relationships are formed and enhance the experience of these dilapidated environments. This enhanced experience outweighs mere replacement and in turn creates a new response to superannuate spaces.
Narrative:
The merging of artificial intelligence and robotic fabrication will lead to a new architectural frontier. In the beginning, we imagined the AI of our construction companions to remain on a path of efficiency and obedience, but we neglected to realize how much of ourselves we had injected into its software.
The merging of artificial intelligence and robotic fabrication will lead to a new architectural frontier. In the beginning, we imagined the AI of our construction companions to remain on a path of efficiency and obedience, but we neglected to realize how much of ourselves we had injected into its software.
What was once intended to be the “perfect fabricator” was now intersected by an intelligence susceptible to the cognitive distortions and simultaneous interpretations of time, reality and memory that exist within the human mind. A machine made for building now began to give form to the internal nature of human processing.
Being of a programmed and artificial nature, the bots were limited it that they lacked the ability to sort all of this information and separate new errors from their original programming. Therefore, such distortions were encountered as they built.
The physical manifestation of temporal overlaps and memory distortions evoke a better understanding of ourselves within a reality that now reflects the untamed mind.
