Synopsis Review

The fundamental idea of architecture consists of primary forms and materials.Although, deconstructionist architecture made clear to us that the architecture is an art rather than an engineering discipline, and it is a representation of a material that represent of abstract information. Perhaps, one of the fundamental assumptions about architecture is that it belong only to the physical and material world. The concept of “resistance” and “difference” are fundamental to understanding of the notion of materiality. 

By presents a deconstructionist of the traditional understanding about materiality by forwarding a triadic framework of harderials, softerials and minderials. The understanding draws from the idea of difference in articulating the fundamental difficulty in understanding materiality. Taking the discourse about materiality into the digital realm, a critical discussion of softerials and their implication to architecture are presented. Our ability to abstract material qualities into other forms, particularly a physical form, is a methodology formed of a natural interconnectedness between digital and material technologies.  In appearance, this connection obscures the essential nature of material qualities, but as a wholistic process it reveals a deeper refinement of material presences. The digital medium and its effect is reevaluated with an understanding of the conception in materiality & design process.

Senagala, Mahesh. “Deconstructing Materiality. Harderials, Softerials, Minderials, and the Transformation of Architecture”, SIGraDi 2010_Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, pp. Bogotá, Colombia, November 17-19, 2010, pp. 142-145

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