fabrication: a conference examining the digital practice of architecture
http://fabrication.ald.utoronto.ca/
Digital design and synthetic fabrication are changing
architecture in fundamental ways. The conference will present new design
methods and fabrication systems as technologies that can be learned and as
practices that invite critical discussion. How do new construction systems
work? What digital design methods, materials, and building details are
emerging? What are the implications for design and industry? What new
paradigms can contemporary fabrication offer architecture?
Cambridge, Ontario; November 11-13, 2004
presented by:
The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Professional Interest
Area (PIA) and The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
(ACADIA)
hosted by:
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture
in collaboration with:
The University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
(al&d)
and chaired by
Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo
Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, University of Oregon
Shane Williamson, University of Toronto
We are particularly interested in the following topics:
Methods and Processes
- Rapid-prototyping
- Prefabrication and off-site construction
- Automated production Component design
Materials
- New properties in hybrid and composite assemblies and resulting
constructions
Systems
- Sensing technologies and intelligent controls
- Interactive surfaces and kinetic mechanisms
- Generative systems
- Design integrated with nature
Design Theory and History
- Qualities emerging from digital design tools and automated
construction
- Changing attitudes towards permanence and complexity
- Historical contexts for contemporary fabrication
Social, Legal and Economic Issues
- The economics of automated fabrication
- Roles and workflow responding to industrial processes and
manufacturing
- Business models that serve emerging practices