Movement and Temporality of the Architectural Object in Digital Design, from Kinetic Architecture to Kinesthetic Architecture

Résumé

The dematerialization of analog media is the most significant element of the digital transition caused by this wave of technological change. The relationship of man with his environment through the mediation of technique is beginning to navigate a universe whose implications and limits are still unknown. This paper is interested in the dimension of movement that digital technologies gives to architecture and perception about the historic buildings. A movement that manifests itself in curved forms, in skin and patterns, in a new architectonics or even in 3d mapping projection shows, where digital plays the role of the main actor and where classical facades constitute the theater of this staging. We will deal with certain effects of this paradigmatic transition which turns out to be inseparable from the understanding of the trades and the societies in which they operate. We will also try to reposition the historic monument as well as the role assigned to it by memory in this new technological environment marked by the production of the image. Virtuality brought by dematerialization operates on several registers. Using 3d Mapping projection, virtuality goes even further than reconstructing the image of a past; this technology is able to deconstruct a reality.