Week 2 Design to Production

Digital age has changed the relationship between concept and product, construction plan now not only born in digital but also fabricated by computer. Branko Kolarevic believe that as constructability becomes a direct function of computability, the question will change from the particular form is buildable to what new way of production can take advantage. Also the digital tool can release designer from drew what they could build and built what they could draw. It shows as architects create the information and translated to digital fabrication equipment they become more and more directly involved into the fabrication processes.

Technological change led digital technology become effective on architectural production. Today digital information participates into each processes of architecture. Software such as BIM are managing the complex design process, exchange the information with different work group. Because of this technology many different information such as analysis, simulation, fabrication, and assembly can be revealed in the earlier stage of the process. Branko Kolarevic

Well organized information during the design process leads to efficiency of decision and craft worker reappeared which from working with material to creating information for digital fabrication and assembly related with material knowledge

As Broanko Kolarevic said Technology is not merely technical; it is an active and transformative entity resulting in new and different cultural effects. Technology, a qualitative set of relations that interact with cultural stimuli. Designers and constructors in the early day of moden building industry has regular and highly specialized roles and those two roles interpret with each other it led to oppositional processes and highly unsatisfactory results. Furthermore, the resulting of oppositional processes contrasts strongly with current trends in digital form-making, parametric design and fabrication in projects and technology is only a catalyst, redefining the roles and the responsibilities of architect. I believe that only through the better communication and cooperation can be more effective and may led us to new era of design and product.

Kolarevic, B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age : design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon Press: 55-62.

Klinger, K. (2008). Relations: Information Exchange in Designing and Making Architecture. Manufacturing material effects : rethinking design and making in architecture. B. Kolarevic and K. R. Klinger. New York, Routledge: 26-36.

Scheurer, F. (2014). Materialising Complexity.  Theories of the digital in architecture. R. Oxman and R. Oxman: 283-291

Week 1: Analogue to Digital

The process of creation in architecture to day assumes that a conventional set of projections, at various scales from site to detail, adds up to complete, tangible idea of a building. They are expected to be absolutely unambiguous to avoid possible interpretations, and to function as efficient neutral instruments and capacity for accurate transcription. The architectural profession generally has identified architectural drawing with such projective tools. Also the technological world has generally embraced the pragmatic capacity of architectural drawing over its potential to construe a symbolic order. In today paperless offices and studios, Bradley Starkey believe that it is crucial to reflect more broadly on the uses and functions of paper in the facture of architecture itself and the act of drawing on paper does not simply involve an automatic transcription onto surfaces of ideas that are already clear in the architect’s mind.  To bring digital outputs from being simply ‘analogical and replicas of paper representation’ it need to understand how the materiality of paper has interfaced with the intellectual activity of architectural facture in generating anagogical demonstrations.

From the articles “Transgression from drawing to making” Bob Sheil also shows that the change from drawing to making has caused the sequence of process that take ideas into the physical world, and his work can now convert between representation and generation in real world. In William J Mitchell’s article, “Design worlds and fabrication Machines”, he summary that architects are increasingly taking advantage of computer and software to support complex derivation processes, CAD or CAM fabrication machines make it highly advantageous to invest in the production. By using the new tool designer can more efficient exploration of familiar design worlds. As a result of the afforded by the CAD and CNC export geometric or such as Stereolithgraphy and Selective laser sintering, digital fabrication processes provide the way to fabricate customized objects with lower cost.

Sheil, B. (2005). "Transgression from drawing to making." Arq : Architectural Research Quarterly 9(1): 20-32.

Mitchell, W. (2003). Design Worlds and Fabrication Machines. Architecture in the digital age : design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon Press: 73-80.

Frascari, M. (2007). A reflection on paper and its virtues within the material and invisible factures of architecture. From models to drawings : imagination and representation in architecture. M. Frascari, J. Hale and B.Starkey. London ; New York, Routledge: 23-33.