In the post-digital age what is the role for materials alongside advancing technology and sciences?
Digital design over the past twenty years has concerned itself with the surface project, specifically techniques of representation creating the illusion of three-dimensionality. This thesis embodies the two dimensional space of the computer and the desire for a three dimensional monolithic volume and section.
Forgery, the act of copying or forging the shaping of materials will be utilized as an alternative building design method. Real materials can be emulated virtually with a high degree of tolerance. These proto-materials interact with artificial construction methods to create a layered composition. Utilizing solid modelling rather than texture mapping, various cutting methods and material qualities create different effects, both on the surface and in section.
The project for a bank in Athens, Greece offers the possibility to explore an architectural typology that now exists symbolically. With the loss of the gold standard, most of its business is done virtually. Allowing architectural possibilities for the physical to engage with the virtual.
