Before / After

Here are some before and after photos of our first-year Computation-based Basic Design student works. In the beginning, they were all full of life, nevertheless, after a couple of seasons, things started to change slowly. Although they look old and deformed, they are still standing.

Reason: Extending the phase space of material performance, unfolding the impossibility of permanence… Or just snow load. It used to be quite durable until recently.

Reason: Rot. Or, in academic language, revealing unintentional symbiotic relationships with its natural environment; (de)formation by fungi and moisture. The students rebuilt the project presented at the 2018 Venice Biennale. The Biennale was held for the 16^th time on 26 May-25 November 2018, and the parallel events titled “Time, Space, Existence” held by Global Art Affairs (GAA) will feature an exhibition of the “Carapace” project, developed by the freshman students of Faculty of Architecture of İstanbul Bilgi University in the ComputationBased_BasicDesign studio.

Reason: Getting more and more familiar every day, losing its “real virtuality” by becoming real, also losing its shininess and transparency. More before and after photos are necessary to understand the effects of the outside atmosphere on the design processes. It is interesting to watch the struggle of design with time. I think we can think of our life that way too. We design for something, we make predictions. They get old over time. I hope they don’t lose their meaning.