2017/10/13
Published by 2017 Palimpsest
Yale Graduate School of Art and Science
Neat Imperfection
PAMLIMPSEST VII - RISK
Yale Graduate Literary & Arts Magzine, Fall 2017
“Neat Imperfection” shows a series of details in two parts: an interactive architectural installation and its corresponding non-standard circuit station. The term ‘imperfection’ refers to bugs and failures in the code, tangling tubes and wires in the circuits, unorganized power adapters and strips behind the station. These ‘imperfections’ are in stark contrast to the expectation of a delicately-designed, ‘neat’ circuit as shown in the schematic diagram. Instead of being hidden or covered, the imperfections are highlighted. The photos kill the romantic image of technology smoothly integrated into a design. Emphasizing the frictions in the integration, this documentation aims to demonstrate a design methodology based on digital prototyping and computation. Digitization will not make architecture become a phantom; rather it will adapt to alternative forms and will bring new emergent principles of authorship into the. Trying to be safe on the path forward is too dangerous; we must take risks.
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