Panayiotis Papadimatos
Architect dip. NTUA Athens
p.papadimatos@ucl.ac.uk
papadimatos@gmail.com

A computer can be seen as an empty structure into which a concept is inserted. The idea of computation is that this concept has to be defined mathematically, something equal to architecture that needs to be fitted into measurements and regulations. This brings interesting questions to the process when a programmer/architect is forced to transform an idea from a concept or an emotion into a logical representation, especially without ruining the original concept.

On the other hand, mathematical chance processes are a medium that can create an artificial nature which displays a complexity, in some ways, equal to the natural nature. The simplest interpretation would suggest that some randomness implies thinking or intelligence but this is only the shell of some characteristics of life that happens to be a meaningless computer algorithm. And here, I believe, is where the illusion of this medium lies.

 

Mood_paths is an abstract environment that responds to the user. Through the use of random generations, colour variations and music tracks, it aims to awaken emotions and moods in the individual.

 

Memory_vessels takes as a starting point a former hospital building due for demolition and the phrase “that which people forget, the cells remember” (Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex).

 

 

(female figure) Copyright image courtesy of Leonidas http://www.aifol.net/
 

The project explores the idea ofthe building as a vessel of memory, a storage of information about people that died, were born, or cured.