Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Jeffrey's Response on Integrating Robotic Fabrication in the Design Process

Going into the digital age, we can see the pros and cons of using Digital model in architecture design. However, it still cannot totally replace physical model which provides direct means to understand a three-dimensional design and also showing the relationships between material, structure, space and proportions. Basing off this topic, these Singaporean researchers started to study how robotic technology and its fabrication can bridge these the analog and digital design, integrating the advantages of physical models in digital design.

They separated the research into scientific perspective on the integration of the computation , fabrication and material systems, as well as a design perspective that studies how the production condition has been changed on architectural design.

The use of Grasshopper has also been a great help for them to approach computation as it visualize the intangible coding for architecture students for them to understand the complex flow structures and logic in digital processing.


Throughout this research, they discovered that students can develop computational design strategy which sharpens the students awareness for their conceptual interdependence. The physical working model from robot fabrication helps students to quickly look into the constructive and structural aspects of their design which would further reintegrate into the computational design. Even though it's a work on programming and computation, this whole process now should be considered as a creative design process independently. 

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