Fabrication Fantasies (Architecture)

A Review on Micro Fabrication Methods to Produce Investment Patterns of Microcasting

by Alexander Decker

The Headspace Project: Computer-Assisted Fabrication as an Introduction to Digital Architectural Design

by Stanislav Roudavski

WITH PRESENTATION SLIDES. Cite as: Roudavski, Stanislav and Anne-Marie Walsh (2011). 'The Headspace Project: Computer-Assisted Fabrication as an Introduction to Digital Architectural Design', in Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, ed. by Christiane M. Herr, Ning Gu, Marc Aurel Schnabel and Stanislav Roudavski, pp. 579-588

Written for architectural educators, this paper discusses whether digital fabrication can be usefully employed in... more Written for architectural educators, this paper discusses whether digital fabrication can be usefully employed in early architectural education. The paper uses examples from a course that aims to introduce the fundamentals of digital architectural design to first-year students. To achieve this, the course integrates digital fabrication as the core element of the production workflow. Challenging but rewarding, early adoption of digital fabrication exposes students to the process- and material-based thinking of contemporary architecture at a time when they form lasting attitudes to designing.