Hyperarchaic Tectonics: “Digital Fabrication and Craft” exhibition, which re-launches the very ancient art of mosaic through computer aided design and advanced mathematics and digital production techniques, was opened to viewers at Galata 311 Artworks on the occasion of Istanbul Design Biennial Parallel Events in November, following London Design Festival.
The marble mosaic murals and statues, created through joint work of Istanbul design studio Emedya Design, and their research partner engineers Adams Kara Taylor II from London, with Gökhan Karakuş as curator, and produced by AKDO, one of the leading natural stone brands in Turkey; offer new means of expression and rational opportunities in creating architectural form and space. Marble mosaics, most recently used in medieval Islamic architecture, revealing new thoughts and means of expression in the field of creation of form and space in architecture, offers a new expression under the title of ‘Hyperarchaic Tectonic’, bringing together the computer and craftsmanship, aesthetics and structure in today’s architecture and design world. The design of mosaics was done by a mathematical formula based on infinite reiteration in two or three dimensions of aperiodical designs. This mosaic layout formula was transformed into geometrical designs with the help of computer aided design, which took their final form.
