This thesis investigates the evolution of architectural ornament from deep, material relief to its contemporary flattened condition. Historically, ornament was embedded within construction, serving as an index of craftsmanship and material resistance. In contrast, contemporary ornament often appears as a digitally generated surface effect, privileging image, repetition, and visual performance over tectonic expression. As ornament becomes increasingly flattened and reproducible, digital tools have not eliminated it but redefined it, translating craft into code and pattern into data. The façade thus operates as both screen and interface, where ornament is designed to be seen rather than touched.
In response, this project draws from familiar construction logics, reinterpreting their repetitive and aggregative properties through digital operations. By extruding and transforming these systems, ornament shifts from applied surface to spatial and tectonic condition, becoming an active agent that produces depth, organization, and architectural form.
