Plan_B: The architectonic display of sonic information

The paper addresses the significant influence of digital technology on architectural design and production by the close examination of the fundamental shift in the conception of architecture based on the dynamic condition that can be termed the "everyday" and its permutations. 
Everyday occurrences are both fleeting and at the same time regimented. The day-to-day condition is considered a highly dynamic flux of economic, social and political aspects and linked to the idea of an architecture that can actually retain and reflect the vitality of everyday's measure, or the daily 'pataphysics'. 
On the one hand, even though the everyday-ness is a cyclical one, the contingencies of each day mandate one to consider the permutations implied in each cyclical turn. Virtual architecture and its techniques are best suited to express and implement such permutations and induce a measure of change in every step and direction of the design process. 
The application of digital technology is regarded as an intervening of 'apparatus' in architectural design and production, and to represent a different approach in relation to the prevailing regime. In this case, in 'apparatus' architecture, the techné IS all at once the episteme. 
Rapid advances and inventions in digital technology, as they occurred in digital audio and in mass media in general, now also dictate the nature of architecture as it is essentially plotted in terms of the trajectories offered by the apparatus. This eventually necessitates the study of the implementation of apparatus in architectural design as a reflection on disparate aspects of ever more complex sources in the production of architectural construct. 
We focus on the investigation and assessment of apparatus driven design and production techniques in architecture by tracing precedents and cases in sound reproduction and its codification, which were established in a similar technological impetus. The primary objective is to produce the corollary between sound reproduction and the conception and production of architectonic codification, and ultimately to propose a strategy of architectural construct that has given way from the clarity of static geometry to the complexity in dynamic variability, that of dissonance. 


