Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

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Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This “file to factory” process not only enables architects to realize projectsfeaturing complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity

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Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This “file to factory” process not only enables architects to realize projectsfeaturing complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.

Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold. Digital Fabrications presents projects designed and built by emerging practices that pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale with a do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects include Ammar Eloueini/DIGIT-AL Studio, Elena Manferdini, Brennan Buck, Michael Meredith/MOS, Office dA, Mafoomby, URBAN A+O, SYSTEM Architects, Andrew Kudless, IwamotoScott, Howeler Yoon, Hitoshi Abe, Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/Emergent, Jeremy Ficca, SPAN, Urban A&O, Gnuform, Heather Roberge, Patterns, and Servo.

Introduction 4
008 Sectioning
Digital Weave, University of California, Berkeley/Lisa Iwamoto 17
Mafoombey, Martti Kalliala, Esa Ruskeepää, with Martin Lukasczyk 22
(Ply)Wood Delaminations, Georgia Institute of Technology/Monica Ponce de Leon 26
A Change of State, Georgia Institute of Technology/Nader Tehrani 28
[c]space, Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang 30
BURST*.003, SYSTEMarchitects 32
034 Tessellating
West Coast Pavilion, Atelier Manferdini 42
Huyghe + Le Corbusier Puppet Theater, MOS 46
Helios House, Office dA and Johnston Marklee & Associates 50
California: Stage Set for John Jasperse, AEDS/Ammar Eloueini 52
Airspace Tokyo, Thom Faulders Architecture 54
Technicolor Bloom, Brennan Buck 56
060 Folding
Dragonfly, Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT 69
Nubik, AEDS/Ammar Eloueini 74
In-Out Curtain, IwamotoScott 76
Entry Paradise Pavilion, Chris Bosse/PTW Architects 78
Aoba-tei, Atelier Hitoshi Abe 80
Digital Origami, University of Technology, Sydney/Chris Bosse 82
C_Wall, Andrew Kudless/Matsys 84
Manifold, Andrew Kudless/Matsys 86
088 Contouring
Bone Wall, Urban A&O 94
Design 306, Erwin Hauer and Enrique Rosado 98
CNC panels, Jeremy Ficca 100
Door with Peephole, WILLIAMSONWILLIAMSON 101
Gradient Scale, SPAN 102
Tool-Hide, Ruy Klein 103
106 Forming
Alice, Florencia Pita mod 113
Prototype Pavilion, MOS 118
UniBodies, PATTERNS, with Kreysler & Associates 122
NGTV, GNUFORM 124
“Dark Places,” servo 126
“Housing in Vienna,” SPAN 130
Satin Sheet, University of California, Los Angeles/Heather Roberge 132
Shiatsu, University of California, Los Angeles/Heather Roberge 135
P_Wall, Andrew Kudless/Matsys 138
Notes 140
Project Credits 141
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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