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Rearticulating
classical divisions of architectural design is at the basis of Stephen
Perrella's Hypersurface theory: 'Hypersurfaces are an interweaving and
subsequent unlocking of culturally instituted dualities.'43 In attempting
to situate the development of this theory in relation to the imperatives
investigated here, the hypersurface can be twisted into a roaming verb
so as to encounter the potentiality of its actions. It becomes a useful
expression of the becoming explicit of extra-dimensionality.
'Surface', in common
parlance, is generally understood as the exterior boundary of things,
the outer skin of any object. In this sense, surfaces are actual, material,
textural entities that are the most directly felt aspects of the world.
They are that which we directly encounter. The surface is also taken
to be something that conceals: 'it was not what it appeared to be on
the surface'. It is when things surface that they become evident; they
appear out of a previously concealed latency. Surfacing is an action
of becoming explicit, of becoming experientially apparent in a movement
from virtuality to actuality - of becoming expressed across the limits
of perception. Surfacing is the process of becoming perceptible and
actual.
To be 'hyper' is
to be overexcited, super-stimulated, excessive, on edge. This state
of intensity is a mode of over-being: an excess of being in that the
processes of becoming exceed constraints to existence. Things foam at
the edges. The 'hyper', when conjoined with 'surface', turns up the
volume on emergence: it is a becoming more than simply explicit, an
'even more pronounced expression [of] its processual dimensions'. Between
the explicit act and the myriad of potential acts, consciousness'4 finds
its emanative expression. Hypersurfacing unleashes the surface into
bearing witness to an even more pronounced expression of the conditions
of emergence. Hypersurfacing is an act of falling into the surface.
Pia Ednie-Brown
Hypersurfacing Hypersurface Arhcitecture. A&D
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Odile Decq and
Benoit Cornette Hyper Tension
Today's society
is caught in a moment of complexity and acceleration. Speed, movement
and displacement have changed our vision of space, cities and Landscape.
The rapid development of communication networks compresses time to such
an extent that we can no longer build up a clear image of the city or
of the Living space.
We are all nomads,
travelling between reality and unreality. Moving from city to city,
sending faxes, channel-surfing, tele-conferencing are all means by which
we navigate space and meaning. This globalisation of our society, through
the mechanisms of information-exchange and travel-exchange, reconfigures
our comprehension of space in motion.
The architecture
of these new territories could therefore be perceived as imperfect,
unlimited and evolving. Cities and territories are becoming redefined
as a network in continuous flux.
From the Power
of Contemporary Architecture, ed P Cook and N Spiller, Academy Editions
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