Modelmaking in architectural space production : studio interactions in the material and the digital realm

Moustaka, A

Abstract

This paper will question and reposition what traditional model making practices in architectural education have enabled and how the transition to digital model making ultimately also means a paradigm shift in the ways we produce, manufacture, design, use and experience architecture. To do so, I will argue that the shift that has taken place in architectural production from physical model making to using digital means of fabrication has not only created a shift in the way architecture is produced but also a shift in the type of architecture produced.
I begin by arguing that the change of medium from the physicality of a material to the terrain of a virtual environment, is at first glance a simple change of medium, a change in the tools and techniques used. But because it involves a different type of interaction, a different effect is produced. The paper investigates examples from student work and concludes that the physical handling of matter informs the development of ideas in architectural and design education in a different way than the engagement with a digital tool because of the different experience the software affords and because of the different embodied experience that an object’s materiality offers.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments
• End Date: Jan 17, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Jul 13, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 17, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 17, 2020
• Deposit Date: Nov 26, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 17, 2020
• Journal: AMPS Proceedings Series 18.1. Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments. Florida State University, USA. 16–17 January 2020
• Electronic ISSN: 2398-9467
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 176-181
• Publisher URL: http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AMPS-Proceedings-18-1-Experiential-Design.pdf
• Related Public URLs: http://architecturemps.com/proceedings/
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference