1ga_ht2100 prof. Marcelyn Gow winter 2022
the parafictional house
Architecture is often criticized when it attempts to produce something “unrealistic”, denoting that it fails to be real. In today’s world, we depend on the digital interface to suggest and test methods of designing that represent the “real”. However, the digital produces a superficial realism of an object or building really is; it is in-fact a composition of different realities. This is also the case with the physical properties of a material, which when unmasked, represents an outcome of practices, economic and political conditions, and aesthetic motivations. The relationship between the physical and the digital exists as their own individual realities co-exist, but when these realities become “weird”, there is an assumption that they will cease to function. In this paper, I am demonstrating that architecture can still function, and produce new meanings when the reality of the digital is augmented with the physical.
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jonathan guirguis
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