Digital Fabrications.

Many computer-aided designs never leave the design/development environment: What looks great on the computer screen, often is almost impossible to built. The book “Digital Fabrications” looks to bridge the gap between the digital representation and building, affording a hypothetical seamless connection between design and making.

The Bone Wall, urban a&o, 2006, page 94

It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This “file to factory” process not only enables architects to realize projects featuring complex, even double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity: design-build experimentation at a one-to-one scale.

Mafoombey, Martti Kalliala, Esa Ruskeepää with Martin Lukascyk, 2005, page 24

The book is organized according to five types of fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming.

Alice, Florencia Pita mod, 2007, page 114

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs)
Lisa Iwamoto
144 pages, 175 color ilustrations