The Future of Digital Design with Paul Seletsky
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Paul Seletsky spoke at Postopolis!, an event organised by BLDDBLOG, City of Sound, Inhabitat, Subtopia and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. A list of available videos from the event can be found here.
Paul Seletsky is the recently appointed Director of digital Design for Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s New York office. In this role he coordinates the strategic implementation of technology as defined by digital design, encompassing greater understanding and utilization of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as well as building the cultural foundations necessary for such change.
“The age of digital design and digital building simulation is now upon us. It is more than just the introduction of a new set of computer tools that architects can use to better coordinate their construction documents. It belies the future of the architectural profession itself,” says Seletsky
SOM emphasizes the fact that there is a variety of factors to look at while designing a building. BIM combines knowledge and data of engineering, programming, material and behavioral science among others. The suggested system allows architects to choose among a variety of conditions and to interpret between what may be the metaphorically or functionally more appropriate way to go.
When an architect is looking to create a certain geometry or form, the BIM helps to validate the initial idea to carry forward as artists as well as scientists when one and the other are in balance.
In his article “Digital Design and the Age of Building Simulation” (AECbytes, October 31, 2005) Seletsky writes:
Architects will now be able to present quantifiable, environmental and engineering data as an inherent, essential part of their design rationale, or partÃ. This information will be displayed simultaneously from one central source, as opposed to a collection of reports provided by a variety of specialists over a given period of time. All imaginable conditions would be on display and seen within a singular environment, allowing their relationships and inter-relationships to be thoroughly examined. Nothing would be left to chance.
In the video above, Seletsky talks about the development of human knowledge and compares medicine and its approach to vulnerable and interconnected systems of human body with methods in architecture that — from his point of view — are out of synch with the present time.
Galina Leinen is a filmmaker and a video editor at ScribeMedia.org
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