Arch Tracker

A few weeks ago we received Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techinques by Lisa Iwamoto and edited by Princeton Architectural Press. Digital Fabrications celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by recent advances in digital-fabrication techniques. Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs whith physical forms.

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 projects featuring complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.

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 AEDS/Ammar Eloueini, Atelier Manferdini, Brennan Buck, MOS, Office dA, Florencia Pita/MOD, Mafoomby, URBAN A+O, SYSTEMarchitects, Andrew Kudless/Matsys, IwamotoScott, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT, Thom Faulders Architecture, Jeremy Ficca, SPAN, GNUFORM, Heather Roberge, PATTERNS, Ruy Klein, and servo.

Sectioning

Tessellating

Folding

Contouring

Forming

More Info:
Princeton Architectural Press
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 144 p. edition (July 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568987900
ISBN-13: 978-1568987903
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches

Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:

Deja un comentario