Art Inheritance: An Education Course on Traditional Pattern Morphological Generation in Architecture Design Based on Digital Sculpturism

Chong Xu, Yi Huang and Bart Dewancker
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Chong Xu: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China
Yi Huang: Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 808-0135, Japan
Bart Dewancker: Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 808-0135, Japan

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Cultural communication and art heritage represent a repository of highly condensed information of past time that depends not only on the expansion of emerging digital media but also on the transformation of language and knowledge. In this course, students try to extract single elements from the traditional Chinese cultural patterns and redesign them, then combine them into existing buildings, attempting to balance the coherence, heterogeneity of space, and the uniqueness of projects. It provides favorable conditions in the new era for the traditional patterns to be re-activated. It is a combination of technology and art. The purpose of this course is not to discover new theories or new technologies but to provide morphological possibilities under the existing digital techniques in cultural symbols. We try to build new ideas and innovative digital expressions for traditional Chinese patterns, realize the collision of culture and technology from experimental trials on the existing architectures in other unimagined forms. It is not only the research reproduction of traditional patterns but also brings new vitality and fresh ideas for architecture design.

Keywords: art inheritance; digital sculpturism; traditional pattern; culture identification; digital arts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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