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.

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