On Heritage

I wanted to explore the applications of new emergent techniques for documenting buildings and how the digital clones of physical objects can be used for a critical re-evaluation of built form. I am interested in evaluating the potential contained within this approach towards the collection and utilisation of data. It is my speculation that the ability to run simulations of scenarios on digital forms which would be highly difficult and possibly contentious to create physically can allow for a broader discussion upon what embedded qualities present in an edifice justifies our cultural concepts of heritage.

I think this can lead to more inclusive discussion through representing instant states that might potentially arise in a building's existence. These digital models can act as benchmarks within the development of the structure there is the option of using them as nodes of reference for future decisions. This can allow for a critical discussion of the application of artificial intelligence and generative networks towards our understanding of the built environment in effect the digitised scenarios can act as devils advocates for the visualisation of potential occurrences allowing for a broader discourse on the actual built form.

Artificial intelligence allows for a radical re-evaluation of our approach towards the consideration of built assemblages. Through the usage of these new emergent technologies, we can consider elements such as the temporal qualities of buildings ageing processes as well as its continual occupation which previously, we might have struggled to visualise. Through this method the possibility emerges to radically reconsider normative approaches towards manufactured constructions. The digital representations can act as provocations encouraging further discussion on the actual power structures which are made manifest in buildings and maintained through their preservation. In addition to this there is the fundamental underlying question of the originality of an edifice which is explored through the process of its documentation and subsequent digitised replication. What embedded qualities constitute the idea of originality and can interactive artificial duplicates help to question and explore this? All the work presented here is my own.