Week9 Reading

Versioning is an operative term meant to describe a recent, significant shift in the way architects and designers are using technology to expand, the potential effects of design on our world. There are a few digital architects and theorists are emerging who have placed an emphasis on open models of practice where the application of technology promotes technique rather than image. The computer has enabled architects to rethink the design process in terms ofprocedure and outcome in ways that common practice, the construct industry and conventional design methodologies cannot conceive of with. Versioning relies on the use of recombinant geometries which allow the external influences to affect a system without losing the precision of numerical control or the ability to translate these geometries using available construction technology. All the design decisions are based on an organisational strategy capable of responding to the effects of speed, turning radius, gradients and etc, to create a fluid behaviour of variable movement. Versioning also extends to methods of practice where nontraditional use of architectural theory is appropriated by other disciplines. If versioning operates at different scales within a design, it should also operate at different scales of practice. Architects and designers are using innovating building materials and construction techniques to expand the possibilities of design and effect, and to keep all aspects of techniques to expand the possibilities of design and effect, and to keep all aspects of construction under their control.