Interior Prosthetics
Project Synopsis: Interior Prosthetics engages material synthetic relations through the development and deployment of divergent material systems interacting in novel ways. An emphasis is placed on uncovering anomalous latent potentials for evocative surface, tactile and opulent effects through the synthesis of these discrete parts. The resultant synthetic constructions produced novel hybrid material ecologies that exhibited emergent qualities unforeseen at the outset of the investigation. Included in Encoding Architecture by Liss Werner and presented at the Encoding Architecture Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2013.
N. Koltick. “Interior Prosthetics” in (Ed.) Liss Werner, [En]coding Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2014. ISBN: 0976294141
Project Description:
Increasingly sophisticated modeling and simulation protocols allow for accelerated procedural search in a potential aesthetic or geometric solution space. The ability to seed an investigation and rapidly view potential solutions and then quickly transform that into a prototyped material artifact has yielded many new formal possibilities. Moving beyond the discrete artifact and away from the highly disciplined component systems, what opportunities does the anomalous present us? In combining multiple discrete systems that contain their own, geometric, material and procedural methodologies, what new hybrid effects may result? In ecology and more specifically biology the interrelationship between discrete parts of a given system can have unexpected effects. Manuel DeLanda in his book, Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason, pursues a rigorous unpacking of some of these mechanisms and relationships at various scales. In all of these systems he locates the presence, “…of a contingent accumulation of layers or strata that may differ in complexity but that coexist and interact with each other in no particular order: a biological entity may interact with a subatomic one, as when neurons manipulate concentrations of metallic ions, or a psychological entity interact with a chemical one, as when a subjective experience is modified by a drug” [1] Can these contingent relations be approximated materially? Do these resultant material ecologies provide any insight into an architecture of flesh, one that indulges opulence? The pairing of discrete material species produces unintended hybridity. These synthetic forms could be said to embody an indulgent formalism. This approach acknowledges that a truly diverse and multifaceted design process that accommodates divergent viewpoints, materials and effects can lead to novel and surprising design research findings.
[1] Manuel DeLanda, (2011). Philosophy and Simulation: The emergence of synthetic reason (Kindle ed.). New York, NY: Continuum, Intro chapter,par.9.
Project Synopsis: Interior Prosthetics engages material synthetic relations through the development and deployment of divergent material systems interacting in novel ways. An emphasis is placed on uncovering anomalous latent potentials for evocative surface, tactile and opulent effects through the synthesis of these discrete parts. The resultant synthetic constructions produced novel hybrid material ecologies that exhibited emergent qualities unforeseen at the outset of the investigation. Included in Encoding Architecture by Liss Werner and presented at the Encoding Architecture Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2013.
N. Koltick. “Interior Prosthetics” in (Ed.) Liss Werner, [En]coding Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2014. ISBN: 0976294141
Project Description:
Increasingly sophisticated modeling and simulation protocols allow for accelerated procedural search in a potential aesthetic or geometric solution space. The ability to seed an investigation and rapidly view potential solutions and then quickly transform that into a prototyped material artifact has yielded many new formal possibilities. Moving beyond the discrete artifact and away from the highly disciplined component systems, what opportunities does the anomalous present us? In combining multiple discrete systems that contain their own, geometric, material and procedural methodologies, what new hybrid effects may result? In ecology and more specifically biology the interrelationship between discrete parts of a given system can have unexpected effects. Manuel DeLanda in his book, Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason, pursues a rigorous unpacking of some of these mechanisms and relationships at various scales. In all of these systems he locates the presence, “…of a contingent accumulation of layers or strata that may differ in complexity but that coexist and interact with each other in no particular order: a biological entity may interact with a subatomic one, as when neurons manipulate concentrations of metallic ions, or a psychological entity interact with a chemical one, as when a subjective experience is modified by a drug” [1] Can these contingent relations be approximated materially? Do these resultant material ecologies provide any insight into an architecture of flesh, one that indulges opulence? The pairing of discrete material species produces unintended hybridity. These synthetic forms could be said to embody an indulgent formalism. This approach acknowledges that a truly diverse and multifaceted design process that accommodates divergent viewpoints, materials and effects can lead to novel and surprising design research findings.
[1] Manuel DeLanda, (2011). Philosophy and Simulation: The emergence of synthetic reason (Kindle ed.). New York, NY: Continuum, Intro chapter,par.9.