Post-tectonic translations: Decoding poetics of architectural detail

The research discusses the phenomenology of drawing details in architecture, approaching the drawings as a medium that carries poetic and technical aspects of architectural design and building. With digital technology advancements, a whole new set of terms and practices appeared that can be related to the changed notion of detailing in architecture. Addressing the problem of translation of architectural concepts into material practice, the research proposes a method for decoding the aspects of poetics of construction by overcoming the conventional representation techniques related to construction drawing, and introduces the combination of methods of interpretative 3D modelling and digital assemblage. By using tectonic theory as a theoretical framework, the research aims to define a new post-tectonic standpoint that can offer a unique perspective on the relation between design process, production and representation in architecture in the current moment. The new perspective outlines the poetical protocols in individual conceptual narratives of the selected authors, approaching the details in their work as a form of representational discursive images that could be interpreted as a microscale of macro ideas in the field of architectural design. The method of research is interpretative modelling that combines the analogue and digital techniques, and analytical drawings of the examples related to the discussed topic. By combining the digital and analogue approach, the aim is to offer a new perspective in the form of the dialectical model for interpretation of architectural detail that could offer new insights into contemporary tectonic discourse through which variant states of the poetical and technical design thinking could be decoded.