Digital Architecture
Architectural Theory, Fabrication, 2022
Architectural Theory, Fabrication, 2022
Architectural Theory
Fabrication
2022
Size : 1600 * 1600 * 1300 (mm)
63 * 63 * 51.1 (inch)
Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Creative
This project explores how digital technology transforms architecture and urban structures. User agency and data interactions dismantle fixed spatial orders, forming fluid and multilayered digital cities. These spaces interact with physical environments, where data accumulation generates new urbanity and spatial identity. Each connection becomes an event, expanding rhizomatically without a central axis. This work visually investigates how architecture evolves through networks and data in the digital age, offering an experimental lens for rethinking architectural systems.
Architecture in the digital era is no longer about shaping form, but organizing flows and relationships. This project proposes a new imagination for the future of urban space.
This model is a spatial apparatus that physically reproduces the structure of a digital city. Through the use of circuit boards, LED lighting, and 3D-printed cellular structures, it visualizes the flow of data and the architecture of networked systems. The structure is composed of stratified yet irregular modules, each functioning independently while organically interconnected to form a unified system. Fluorescent lights and LEDs are used to represent the flow and intensity of information, symbolizing the density of networks and the strength of user connections. The white, cell-like structures, fabricated through 3D printing, represent data nodes. These elements pierce through or wrap around the circuitry, forming a cityscape that resembles an amorphous organism. The white masses placed on the periphery symbolize fixed architectural elements in physical cities, creating a stark contrast with the dynamic digital structures at the center, thereby suggesting a duality between the physical and the digital. The entire model—composed of mechanical parts, digital components, and organic forms—embodies a “network city,” not as a traditional architectural model, but as a conceptual urban prototype where information and space are interwoven. Reflecting the spread of digital technologies and data-driven social structures, this model visually asserts that architecture must be reorganized beyond fixed physical boundaries, toward a system of flows and connections.
The mechanical plate forming the structural base represents the physical foundation of the city and functions as a mechanism operating within the urban “situation.” Layered circuit boards and spatial masses placed on the plate signify the infrastructure and architectural layers of the city. Light sources emitting in multiple directions represent various events unfolding in the urban context, visually emphasizing the intensity and temporality of each moment. These lights are not static; instead, they exist in a state of constant transformation, revealing the fluidity and event-driven nature of the city from within.
In a city generated by digital networks, who truly owns the space—individual will, or algorithmic logic?
