Reading Response:
Manufacturing the Bespoke by Bob Sheil (pages 78-87)
Sheil raises the point that robots should be and are now more integrated in the architecture design process, which leads to a question of the levels of automation--will it be a good idea to program an entire building as a single construction process? It may make economic sense to make use of a tool as frequently as possible, and it certainly seem to reduce the number of separate steps of construction. However, it is ironic that a tool--the robot--so flexible for unique building situations may precisely become a tool of mass production. People today sell generic plans and sections to land owners; in the future, people can be selling digital description files for robotic fabrication. In addition, what are then, the new roles of the architect and the builder? Will the builder become the duplicator and the architect become the space programmer?
Manufacturing the Bespoke by Bob Sheil (pages 78-87)
Sheil raises the point that robots should be and are now more integrated in the architecture design process, which leads to a question of the levels of automation--will it be a good idea to program an entire building as a single construction process? It may make economic sense to make use of a tool as frequently as possible, and it certainly seem to reduce the number of separate steps of construction. However, it is ironic that a tool--the robot--so flexible for unique building situations may precisely become a tool of mass production. People today sell generic plans and sections to land owners; in the future, people can be selling digital description files for robotic fabrication. In addition, what are then, the new roles of the architect and the builder? Will the builder become the duplicator and the architect become the space programmer?
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