The tool making aspect in contemporary times is best captured by the scientific discipline of Architectural geometry / Geometry processing and sets the scene for its use architects to help organize the lives of the consumers of architecture.
CLAY 3D PRINTING When digital manufacturing meet traditonal material
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Architectural Geometry aims to capture within geometry, essentials aspects of structure, fabrication, function, environment, etc. In other words, the rapidly maturing AG field provides the rigorous mathematical guarantees and intuitive, exploration friendly geometric tool-kit to enable architects to explore and deliver the agenda of performancebased architecture into the mainstream. When the so enabled exploratory process, leads to a stylistic expression of structural, fabrication related textures, and other ‘tectonic’ features, it yields tectonism. Clay printing workshop aims to test the possibilities of digital manufacturing with traditional material. The workshop exploring : (1) constructing a digital to physical tool-chain (2) computational geometry and c++ programming for architect (3) robot kinematics, constraints and synergetic geometries (4) exploration and exploitation of associated design spaces (the space of plausible geometries and textures).
