ORNAMENTAL PORNAMENTATION: THE ABSTRACT AND THE EXUBERANT BODY OF ORNAMENTATION

摘要

The recent proliferation of digital techniques has brought an abrupt close to the seemingly enduring separation of tectonics and ornamentation in architecture. Small variations in software protocols and fabrication mechanics can result in the more or less exuberant articulation of ornate surfaces and volumes. Besides tooling systems and mechanics, one can also observe a twofold conceptual pursuit of such synthesis of digital ornamentation and tectonics, which can be termed the 'ornaMental' and 'pOrnamentation'. The first propels towards 'pure form' through abstraction, the latter towards the 'purely figural' through sensation.