The Digital Copy in Architecture: New Discourses and Approaches

Megaron

关键词: FAT;    architectural copy;    architectural theory;    Redux;    Villa Rorunda.;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: KARE Publishing

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays, any intellectual product can be produced and reproduced in digital environment. In parallel with the development of digital reproduction technologies, the concept of copy has been reshaped and debated in different contexts. The first break with the digital copy is the physical loss of the distinction between original and copy. In its simplest sense, a digital copy is a digital file created in the virtual environment and capable of being replicated infinitely. Each of these files is identical, that is why it is impossible to establish a predecessor - successor relationship between the duplicated digital files. Differentiating from the mechanical production, it does not propose countless copies made from the same model, but numerous identical copies, none of which is the original model. In this context, the digital copy can be re-processed by each user and constructed in the physical world through uninterrupted manufacturing processes. At this point it is possible to talk about the potentiality of the concept of redux in architecture. In the scope of the study, the concept of redux is discussed through the digital-based current reproduction and construction processes, which are similar to craft production. The Villa Rotunda Redux project (2012) of the Fashion Architectural Taste (FAT) group is examined in this context. Villa Rotunda Redux, the case study of this paper, has been presented as a part of “The Museum of Copying” exhibition at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012. Palladio’s Villa Rotunda, the most imitated building in the world, has been imitated once again by using contemporary fabrication techniques. The installation presents many questions relating to “architectural copy”. Through the analysis of visual material and the discourses surrounding the installation’s design process, this study examines the contemporary copy culture and the potentiality of the redux in architecture.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND