Research's IaaC - Digital Tectonics

With the advent of the information society, architecture is no longer built but manufactured. The techniques of digital production have put the architect back at the centre of the construction process because the information generated in the design process is literally used to manufacture the various parts of a building. Digital technology has thus gone beyond the representation stage to take its place precisely in the production phase of architecture. In the light of this, parametric design makes it possible to approach the architecture project on everything from the territorial scale to the urban design of the building, in an open fashion, integrating algorithms and dynamic formulations in the project-design process itself.
With the development of new software, scripting techniques can now be integrated into architectural design, transforming the old plastic principles by the insertion of mathematical logics into the project.
In order to experiment with these project-design processes, digitally control machines are used to produce scale models of the designs and prototypes of projects at 1:1 scale. The IaaC has a workshop for the production of full-scale prototypes equipped with digital fabrication machines, including a 320 x 120 cm CNC cutter, a laser machine, a 3d printer, a 3d scanner and several electronic equipment.

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