© Amelyn Ng 2024
Borgesian BIM Object Library
exhibition participant, forum
YEAR:
2021
TYPE:
Exhibition video and remote symposium presentation, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital, International Latsis Symposium, EFPL, Lausanne, March 2021.
INFO:
BIM Borgesian Object Library probes the default settings of information-rich Objects found in Autodesk Revit software and downloaded from open-source 3D warehouses. Through a 10-minute video and screenshots of immaterial technical labor in BIM software, this Library questions BIM's systemic digital relationships, properties, and working interfaces of technical architectural work. Typical BIM object models are copied, edited, and embedded within more models—to the effect of an infinitely coordinated Babel of Building Information; a Borgesian library of libraries. Here, objects are critically regrouped and narrated in order to open up BIM’s current operating system of world-making, toward more just building futures.
STUDENT ASSISTANCE:
Yun Koo, Alec Burran
2021
TYPE:
Exhibition video and remote symposium presentation, DEEP CITY: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital, International Latsis Symposium, EFPL, Lausanne, March 2021.
INFO:
BIM Borgesian Object Library probes the default settings of information-rich Objects found in Autodesk Revit software and downloaded from open-source 3D warehouses. Through a 10-minute video and screenshots of immaterial technical labor in BIM software, this Library questions BIM's systemic digital relationships, properties, and working interfaces of technical architectural work. Typical BIM object models are copied, edited, and embedded within more models—to the effect of an infinitely coordinated Babel of Building Information; a Borgesian library of libraries. Here, objects are critically regrouped and narrated in order to open up BIM’s current operating system of world-making, toward more just building futures.
STUDENT ASSISTANCE:
Yun Koo, Alec Burran
Video Contents:
0:00 Nature-Culture Objects
2:30 Levels of Extraction in Default BIM Materials
5:00 Eco-technical Equipment (Homage to Superstudio)
7:30 Abolish Parametric Prison Objects
10:00 Canonical Carbon (Homage to Friedrichstrasse)