Digital Arts Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio
Design Overview
The proposed Digital Arts Gallery in Cleveland insinuates a literal formal projection onto the existing B&O Train Station. The projection of the new addition is embodied in the addition from its structure to its skin. Its linear passage can be further discovered in the clearly extruded nature of the structure.
Post-Digital Design Practice
Digital tools are now used to mediate most human experiences. The distinction between the digital and physical is fading due to the union of the two interfaces. Parameters of current design practice have influenced the built world by creating a language that designers didn’t realize they were speaking. In the post-digital era, designers must accept and engage the advantageous means of communication as developing cyborgs.
There is no definite guide to what architecture should be or what it will be in the future as it is being redefined indefinitely.
In the post-digital era, it is valid that materials can and will imply a previously undefined sense of character.
Let the facade speak
The building’s skin implies that the body of the addition has cracked and unhinged itself to allow attachment onto the existing building. Such ideas are found successful in the continuity of the extruded forms from skin to structure.
