Examination of the Designs by Auguste Perret Using Digitally-Enabled Forensic Techniques

Brown, André; Webb, Nicholas

doi:10.1260/1478-0771.8.4.537

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“…Based on the initial feedback from the participants, the VR experience does not fully re-create their memories because of the hard-edged digital objects and the lack of complexity in the real scenario. This gives motivation to further develop the virtual environment and increase the level of immersion, with the ideal to reach a level of "entrancement" (Ryan 2003).…”

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Interpreting and exploiting narrative as a sketch design generator for application in VE

Brown,

Liu,

Webb

et al. 2020

eCAADe Proceedings

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The research in this paper focusses on how a narrative text can be the generator of an architectural drawing, or other architectural representation, such as an Architectural Virtual Environment. The drawn physical sketch has traditionally played that role. A particular approach to narrative has been important for some notable architects and their architecture. Ian Ritchie ( 2014), for instance, celebrates the use of poetry to describe the essential spirit of a scheme before any drawing is done. The work in the paper here describes the proposition to capture such narrative text in a systematic and structured way. We describe foundational work on how the captured narrative text has been translated into a contemporary, computer-mediated, design development environment. Different narrative accounts recalling a now demolished house form the focus case study. This case study is the vehicle through which the initial principles establishing how best to move from narrative to virtual representation are established and tested.

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Section: Case Study Conclusionmentioning

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Interpreting and exploiting narrative as a sketch design generator for application in VE

Brown,

Liu,

Webb

et al. 2020

eCAADe Proceedings

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“…The preservation of architectural heritage has utilised many different methods as computer-mediated design technology has developed. In the digital age, 3D digital reconstructions for both existing and lost architectural heritage have become increasingly employed to enhance critique and understanding of aspects of cultural significance (Brown and Webb, 2010). In particular, building types with pseudo-formalised rules such as ecclesiastical buildings, valuable and useful findings can result from such analysis, as shown by Webb and Brown (2016).…”

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Extracting and Communicating Underlying Pseudo-Formalised Procedural Rules in Heritage Architecture - The Case of New Zealand's 19th Century Timber Churches

Mclennan¹,

Schnabel²,

Moleta³

et al. 2020

CAADRIA Proceedings

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The research employs procedural modelling to investigate the characteristic rules present within a loosely defined architectural style. The 19th-century timber neo-Gothic churches built in the city of Wellington, New Zealand are examples of a particular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style. Although they all share common aspects, no prescribed rules are regulating how these churches were designed. This research explores a methodology for creating a procedural 'Timber Gothic Church Generator' that is generated from an understanding and interpretation of the design of the buildings examined. Once developed the procedural generator can be used to extrapolate, and produce other church designs as well as create hybrid designs. These outputs can be further refined through the creation of parametric rules. A key result of this methodology is to explicate better otherwise ambiguous design philosophies that are shared between the similar buildings. It shows how a design can be reverse-engineered and converted into procedural logic. The research establishes the process and logic to enable the creation of further rules to be explored.

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“…We continually update our digital systems with little understanding of the effects this has on the continued legibility of information. When files prove not to be resilient to these updates, we can look to digital forensics, file restoration and cultural preservation 2–5 or we can embrace glitches as a new opportunity for a ‘digital antique’. 6,7 Shipwright 8 suggests that ‘glitch surely warrants attention within the field of architecture precisely because it is in this realm that aesthetics and technology are so inextricably woven together’.…”

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Glitch architecture

Schnabel

Haslop

2018

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Architectural designs are visualised on computer screens through arrays of pixels and vectors. These representations differ from the reality of buildings, which over time will unavoidably age and decay. How, then, do digital designs age over time? Do we interpret glitching as a sudden malfunction or fault in the computation of the design's underlying data, or as digital decay resulting not from the wear and tear of tangible materials but from the decomposition of the binary code, or from system changes that cannot appropriately interpret the data? By exploring a series of experimental design practices for deployments and understandings that are the consequence of malfunctions during computational processing, glitches are reinterpreted. Advancing from two-dimensional glitch art techniques into three-dimensional interpretations, the research employs a methodology of systematic iterative processes to explore design emergence based on glitches. The study presents digital architectural form existing solely in the digital realm, as an architectural interpretation of computational glitches through both its design process and aesthetic outcome. Thus, this research intends to bring a level of authenticity to the field through three-dimensional interpretations of glitch in an architectural form.

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Examination of the Designs by Auguste Perret Using Digitally-Enabled Forensic Techniques

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Interpreting and exploiting narrative as a sketch design generator for application in VE

Interpreting and exploiting narrative as a sketch design generator for application in VE

Extracting and Communicating Underlying Pseudo-Formalised Procedural Rules in Heritage Architecture - The Case of New Zealand's 19th Century Timber Churches

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