Glitcheon

Dynamic Mutations v3.0 - DesignMorphine workshop
Group Project - Alex Ahmad, Arek Keshishian, Harry Varnavas, Vamsi Krishna Vemuri




The disrupted Narrative:
    The significant Russian Revival Architectural elements from the Sveti Nikolai church at Sofia, are newly appropriated from their rich historical narrative and are exemplified and revived in an unfamiliar big data paradigm. The shift from the original and the reformation of the parts in the newer digital reality is envisaged with a loss of data or the Glitch. In conjunction with the loss, is the scramble and coalescence of the data fragments forming dissimilar affiliations and inducing a stranger mutated coexistence.
    These new fragments of data frame a new fiction altogether and are kitbashed together in this Digital reality, where they attempt to reconstruct a divergent Architectural narrative. This proposes a dysfunctional and hitched reading of the whole Project.
    The elements/fragments are alleviated from their true scales, dimensionalities and proportions, and are mutated to produce the Glitcheon, a post-digital Neo-Grotesque Church. The rich historic character, colour and texture embedded in the church is restructured as scattered arbitrary data fragments, that often oscillates between legibility and illegibility, of their source construct and these fluctuations and disengagements are encompassed relieving the formal notions of the cathedral and are perceived through the unexhausted idea of the Glitches in architecture.






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