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Architectural Disruption In The Age Of Computation: A Critical Review On Digital Architecture
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Marcos, Carlos L.
Fernandez-Alvarez, Angel J.
Pak, Burak
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Architecture, as any creative endeavor, is subject to ever-changing progress driven by human inventiveness. Disruption is achieved within the discipline during moments of substantial innovative changes in the way buildings are conceived and built, displacing pre-existing canons. The so-called digital turns have disrupted the discipline in varied ways and to different degrees. After over three decades of digital architecture, it is time to critically ponder their importance and significance. This paper investigates whether digital architecture qualifies as disruptive innovation comparable to modernity’s transformative impact. It contextualizes digitality by analyzing exemplary digitally designed projects across structure, form, and materiality. Tracing technical-aesthetic divergences from modernist principles, significant transformations are surfaced: digitally-enabled structural logics emerge, formal complexity and irregularity generated through digital tools displace modernist orthodoxy, and a new materiality arises from CAD/CAM convergence or mass-customized production. These changes are consistent with the use of computation, parametric and algorithmic design tools to optimize structure, matter, or form to enhance energy efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint, solar protection, or natural ventilation, to mention a few. Synthesizing these developments, digitality seems to question and expand modernism on its own terms, through tectonic relevance, formal irregularity, and material experimentation while pluralizing its unified aesthetic vision. This mapping of disruptive digital architecture practices reveals an ongoing evolution still unfolding. Advancing digital design requires integrating humanistic meaning and elevating lived experience, not just pursuing novelty. Elucidating digital disruption’s impact triggers critiques highlighting unsettled questions for future inquiry across theory, technology, culture, and the environment. This disruptive catalog across structure, form and materiality unfolds future directions by which architectural discourse can reorient the discipline through the upheavals and possibilities in the computational age. Digital disruptive architecture requires new ways of conceiving and fabricating buildings, benefiting from the computational potential of digital tools to manage complexity in unprecedented ways. Truly digitally conscious designs should allow us to design buildings that could not have been so without their assistance while benefiting from their potential to simulate the designed building’s behavior and, accordingly, improve the design itself based on requirements. Yet, if digital architecture is to achieve critical value, we ought to bear in mind that the founding principles of the discipline cannot be neglected.
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Architecture
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Disruption
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Digital turns
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Computational design
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Tectonics
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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/uploads/docs/sayilar/sayi-41-1/metujfa2024108.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110476
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ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi
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https://doi.org/10.4305/METU.JFA.2024.1.8
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Department of Architecture, Article
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C. L. Marcos, A. J. Fernandez-Alvarez, and B. Pak, “Architectural Disruption In The Age Of Computation: A Critical Review On Digital Architecture,”
ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi
, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 147–172, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/uploads/docs/sayilar/sayi-41-1/metujfa2024108.pdf.