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Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

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ISBN-10: 041553366X

ISBN-13: 9780415533669

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christopher Beorkrem

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In 400 step-by-step diagrams, author Christopher Beokrem shows how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. He has recreated and dissected thirty-six of the most progressive works of architecture of the last few years, with perspectives from the designers so that you can learn from the successes and failures of each project. Using consistent language and the simplest construcion techniques, he identifies the important characteristics of each material, including connection types, relative costs, deformation, color, texture, finish, dimensional properties, durability, and weathering and waterproofing to link the design outcomes to form. The book is…    
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Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 8.27" wide x 10.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Introduction
Timber/Wood
Dunescape, SHoP Architects
Immaterial/Ultramaterial, Nader Tehrani
The Sequential Wall, Gramazio and Kohler
The Ripple Wall, Digital Arts Center
Zip Tooth Rocker, Schindlersalmeron
ICD/ITKE Pavilion, Achim Menges
Winnipeg Skate Shelters, Patkau Architects
Responsive Surface Structures, Steffen Reichert and Achim Menges
Stratifications, Gramazio and Kohler
Trondheim Camera Obscura, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Metals
Real Good Chair, Blue Dot Furniture
Material Formations In Design, Elijah Porter
FlatForm, Marbie Fairbanks
Croatian Pavilion, Venice Biennale Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Leo Modrcin
Frank Residence, Happy Box Architecture
Aqua Tower - Freeform, Studio Gang Architects
La Maison Unique - Longchamp Flagship Store, Heatherwick Studio
Between the Sheets, Heather Roberge
Concrete/Masonary
C.A.S.T. Beam, Mark West
P_Wall, Matsys
UnikaBeton, Asbjorn Sondergaard
290 Mulberry Street, SHoP Architects
Structural Oscillations, Gramazio and Kohler
Freeform Catalan Thin-tile Vaults, Philippe Block
Hybrids
Feathered Edge, Ball Nogues Studio
CHROMAtex.me, SoftLab
MoMA PS1 Canopy, nArchitects
Periscope Tower, Matter Design
CoreFab-Nubik, Ammar Eloueini
Spanish Pavilion, Foreign Office Architects
Recycled/Pre-Cycled
Public Farm, WORK.AC
Packed, Tom Pawlofsky
Carborigami, Tine Hovsepian
Pallet Canopy, Digital Arts Centre UNC Charlotte
Pipe Furniture, Sebastien Wiernick
Table Cloth, Ball Nogues Studio