The Architecture of Slicing
Digitally empowered tools and processes for making, such as robotic fabrication and 3D printing have enabled the materialization of designs of ever-growing complexity, with the promise of an unprecedented expressive freedom but also with the promise of automation and its economic benefits. Simulta...
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Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
2023-07-01
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Digitally empowered tools and processes for making, such as robotic fabrication and 3D printing have enabled the materialization of designs of ever-growing complexity, with the promise of an unprecedented expressive freedom but also with the promise of automation and its economic benefits. Simultaneously, controlling new digital processes also presents opportunities to address the need for a more socially responsible and sustainable architectural practice. What is not clear is how such technologies can be critically appropriated in architecture, balancing all these solicitations.
This paper centers on digital fabrication tool for concrete architecture - Robotic Hot Wire Cutting - focusing on the emerging opportunities of the mechanic of slicing, and proposes to answer the question: how can digital fabrication tools balance the allure of automation, the responsibility of sustainability and the drive for artistic production? To answer this question, we present a thematic analysis to these issues, based on the articulation of the findings from a set of four experimental prototypes developed to explore these issues.
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| spelling | doaj-art-04ebce5920e940a6bcc135162b14b9ae2024-11-19T15:09:32ZengImprensa da Universidade de CoimbraJoelho1647-95481647-86812023-07-011410.14195/1647-8681_14_4The Architecture of SlicingPedro Martins0José Pedro SousaDepartamento de Arquitectura, FCT-UC Digitally empowered tools and processes for making, such as robotic fabrication and 3D printing have enabled the materialization of designs of ever-growing complexity, with the promise of an unprecedented expressive freedom but also with the promise of automation and its economic benefits. Simultaneously, controlling new digital processes also presents opportunities to address the need for a more socially responsible and sustainable architectural practice. What is not clear is how such technologies can be critically appropriated in architecture, balancing all these solicitations. This paper centers on digital fabrication tool for concrete architecture - Robotic Hot Wire Cutting - focusing on the emerging opportunities of the mechanic of slicing, and proposes to answer the question: how can digital fabrication tools balance the allure of automation, the responsibility of sustainability and the drive for artistic production? To answer this question, we present a thematic analysis to these issues, based on the articulation of the findings from a set of four experimental prototypes developed to explore these issues. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/joelho/article/view/11412 |
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