Week 8 Readings

Practice vs Project II: from Surface, Hypersurface, to self-organized Bodies

As the evolution of Architecture today, architects is trying to incorporate the interaction between people and the environment. Antoine Picon remark the distinction between interior and exterior ‘surface challenge the traditional mode of presence of architecture’ (Picon 2010, p.89).

Architects consider the movement form surface to hypersurface is a consideration of time and how things change over time and response to different condition and also the incorporation of information, so that the façade that is no longer simply a surface that defines space, its now potentially has other function and is gone form the context of text to media to surface, and how we seeing the hypersurface to hyperbodie.

Picon mentioned about the shift from tectonic and the hierarchy of construction through surface and performance, and he also talks about digital architects obsession with the surfaces that generally can express this idea flow and parametric variation.

From the reading of Stephen Perrella ‘topological Architecture’, my understanding of ‘Hypersurface’, is a movement away from the traditional notion of architecture which are basically components, doesn’t necessary mean the building moves, but it does mean that the building that might be in some way reactivity, this is when media become more dynamic, when we incorporating media to surface it could change the appearance and form through its light and information. Hypersurface also attain to the way the building might response to a range of environmental condition and the interaction between people and the environment (Perrella 1998-2003, pp. 146-157).

Reference List

Picon, A 2010, The surface as Architecture, Digital Culture in Architecture, pp.84-93.

Perrella, S 1998-2003, Topological Architecture, M Carpo (ed), The Digital Turn in Architecture 2013, Wiley, pp. 146-157.