COPY & PASTE ARCHITECTURE

Artistic Project & Achitectural Research

carried out in ChengDu, China (July-Sep 2018)

during: A4 Artist in Residence International Exchange Program

Individual project supported by Luxelakes A4 Art Museum

(Link){http://www.a4am.cn/website/artist_info/id/73}

Copy & Paste is a fundamental step in the design process to achieve various degrees of complexity.

When it is used to duplicate entire buildings it is regarded as a shortcut that results in profit-driven design projects meant to be speculative instead of meaningful for a community.

On the other hand, for me, Copy & Paste is attractive as it possesses a certain beauty: “the Beauty of Order”.

In this project I wanted to deliberately use Copy & Paste as a design tool with which to attempt to achieve not only beauty but also uniqueness.

For this purpose I researched and identified a series of principles that could lead to design “uniqueness” and I eventually found 5 unique prime example buildings within the city of Chengdu.