We are now noticing a new shift towards exploring different design methodologies and fabrication utilizing emergent digital technologies. Many designers in the field of architecture are pursuing this new exploration, as they believe it will produce new design typologies and construction methods through advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies. We no longer want to be confined by the traditional design and construction processes because they seem obsolete to the digital era we live in when compared to other industries like automotive and aerospace that have embraced these technologies.
The world is now on the brink of entering the era of 3d-printed buildings and its promise to turn complicated and intricate designs into reality. Full-scale building structures are foreseeable as many designers are utilizing the rapid prototyping technique of 3d printing to construct large-scale building components or structures that cannot be built by hand or require a skilled costly laborer to fabricate it. Multiple projects around the world are now constructing large-scale buildings solely fabricated through digital technologies.
The question of pushing the boundaries of conventional architecture design by utilizing advanced design tools and fabrication methods becomes the driving notion of my interest. Therefore, my main focus is researching existing methods of construction or material crafts essentially found locally in the UAE & MENA region and re-appropriating them through advanced design tools and fabrication techniques to create complex singular designs and customizable multiples that are unique to the region. I believe it is important to adhere to our cultural and physical contexts because it provides responsiveness and incorporation to our environment. It also pushes the idea of creating an architectural identity to the environment we live in rather than making designs that lack contextual relevance and can be placed anywhere in the world.
I’m interested in creating projects that provide a crude answer towards new methods of design and construction through the utilization of computation and digital fabrication methods.I want my research to push the audience from different segments whether academic, professional or individuals to question the state of architecture fabrication methods and material manipulation. It is important to be able to deliver a project that opens the dialogue of new possibilities just as 3D printing technologies are trying to push the architecture industry. However, the design methods explored will address a contextual response rather than solely focusing of automation of design and construction, which was the demise of the traditional architecture processes due to the lack of contextual responses. “To be innovative, architects—and works of architecture themselves—must become more responsive to their users and environments. In other words, they must incorporate feedback from their physical and cultural contexts rather than relying solely on conventional analytical or internal processes of development … from design to construction” Ali Rahim, architect (Celanto, “Innovate or Perish”).
Reference:
Celanto, David. “Innovate or Perish: New Technologies and Architecture’s Future.” Harvard Design Magazine, No. 26, 2007,www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/26/innovate-or-perish-new-technologies-and-architectures-future.
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