AS BUILT

Rhino, Grasshopper, CNC, AI

Selected work for CURRENT Exhibition

Collaborator: Sohun Kang, Evenly Tan

Instructor: Gabriel Fires-Briggs

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What is the relationship between architects and the construction site? Since AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct specified "an architect mat not engaging directly or indirectly in building contracting" in 1949, architects have been separated from the act of construction. The division of labor separated from the design as the birth of ideas and the construction as the posthumous one. Paper architecture in the 1960s declared paper as the site of architecture. However architecture as a discipline is not free from the problems of building. Today Building-Information-Systme attempts to collapse the paper and the construction site. Architects no longer draw a line. They draw a wall. In BIM, there is not idea outside of building. Architects can only think inside the box. This proposal rejects both paper architecture and BIM as a model of relationship between architects and the construction site. By contrary, AS-BUILT re-imagines the relationship of architect and the construction site as that of scientist and the experiment.