MArch Thesis

Exit

Data is meaningless; it may only be given shape through a referential method of unfolding – that is into form. As a construct, data is fragmentary and irrational and in its translation of an analogue it inevitably generates errors and decay. Bound by mediation there must be an attempt to assert points of departure, relational in nature. The decay and errors imbedded within the data become instances of opportunity. 

To coalesce divergent systems is to exploit a methodology involving the process of translation, where points in space become form. With each point, an opportunistic exit. A derivative construct reveals itself as a spatial artifact, bearing little resemblance to the origin. However, they remain familiar in spite of their radical deviation from an analogue instance. 

This process adopts an operation of assembly involving the stitching of a line within a complex set of fragmentary data. Stitching together translated fragments of a disfigured architectural element allows them to become discrete digital forms. This is the mediation of an untethered fragment into a novel reconceptualised construct. As reconstructed renditions these forms are at once autonomous and inextricably linked to an origin which is now manifested into new identity. Exploring these artifacts through representational outputs that reveal their form, my intervening hand provides an exit from the presumed closed system of logic.