This reading further explains the reading from last
week, integrating robotic fabrication in the design process. It introduces the
new phenomenon, "digital materiality", that bridges digital design
and realization. While robotics were less common in architecture, this reading
explains how robotics is now giving a new aesthetic and potentials that changes
the architecture design and building culture.
While some argue digital technologies as a generator of
complex geometries and renderings, this reading suggest that the real question
should focus how digital technologies changes architectural material practice.
The authors were not interested in the technological advances, instead they
focuses on how it can expand the scope of architectural design and production.
One of the examples is that it can do non-standardized
assembly which would be close to be impossible to be built like The Gatenbein
Vineyard Facade. Also because architecture is in fact pure physical substance,
robots helps enabling realization of these creative projects.
The authors also mentioned the new emphasis of this digital
age that we must look into both practical and theoretical perspectives in order
to make robot not just a medium of production, but also developing new
approaches to design.
It is also true that because it has become more and more
available to the public that anyone can be an expert in digital fabrication
now. Because of robot, we can now develop new ways of thinking about
architecture as well as materializing it.
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