Physical and virtual : transformation of the architectural model

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Arpak, Aslı

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Today the most prosperous interface of architectural design and representation has become the architectural model both in its digital and physical forms. There has been a shift in the design medium from the physical modeling processes to computer-aided design, by way of which the computational design methods have established a much more dynamic, complex, and continual design. In this process, the digital design model now accompanies the whole design as a single entity, contrary to conventional analog modeling techniques where design is compartmentalized into linear phases. By the embracement of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) in company of computeraided design (CAD), physical modeling has gained another dimension in the interwoven relationship of the digital and physical. The aim of this study is to explore the novel conceptual and computational changes which mark the departure of this new mode of design from the old. There has always been a hierarchy of presence between the virtual space of representations and architecture’s materiality. Within this context, the emphasis of the study is on the relationship between the virtuality of conception and modeling processes, and the materiality of construction, production and fabrication.

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Architecture., Architectural models.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609663/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18189

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A. Arpak, “Physical and virtual : transformation of the architectural model,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2008.