Digital fabrication in architecture

✍ Scribed by Dunn, Nick

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modeling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods. This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for architecture that can be achieved with all the different technologies and techniques available for making complete designs or their components

✦ Table of Contents

Content: A brief history --
Fabricating architecture in the digital age --
Getting started --
Digital tools and machines for fabrication --
Generation : CAD
NURBS
Meshes
Curvilinear formations
Parametric and generative design
Algorithmic architecture
Morphogenesis
Integration : Hybrid techniques
Nonstandard design and mass customization --
Digital fabrication principles
Laser cutting
CNC milling and routing
Rapid prototyping
3-D scanning
Robotics --
Strategies : Nonlinearity and indeterminacy
Digital tooling
Contouring
Folding
Forming
Sectioning
Tiling
Future fabrication of architecture --
Conclusion --
Glossary.

✦ Subjects

Architectural drawing -- Computer-aided design. Architecture -- Data processing. ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.