Reading Response:
Encoding Material by Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Silvan Oesterle (pages 108-115)
When we have access to robotic fabrication, thus decreasing the gap between design and fabrication, we return to perhaps the state of architects at its original form--builders. This way, we have a closer understanding of concepts such as gravity and materiality. I suspect, however, that we will have a slightly different idea about construction and assembly, simply because the tool we now use is a robot instead of hands (or hands of others). The basic logics may be kept the same, but the level of precision, persistence, size, and strength that the robot offers allows for new methods of making, and hence new types of spaces. Some say that material drives design, but maybe all steps and aspects of designing and building drive the product. Tools also drive design.
Encoding Material by Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Silvan Oesterle (pages 108-115)
When we have access to robotic fabrication, thus decreasing the gap between design and fabrication, we return to perhaps the state of architects at its original form--builders. This way, we have a closer understanding of concepts such as gravity and materiality. I suspect, however, that we will have a slightly different idea about construction and assembly, simply because the tool we now use is a robot instead of hands (or hands of others). The basic logics may be kept the same, but the level of precision, persistence, size, and strength that the robot offers allows for new methods of making, and hence new types of spaces. Some say that material drives design, but maybe all steps and aspects of designing and building drive the product. Tools also drive design.
