ABSTRACT

The experience of making e gap between computation and making today may be seen as a rapidly developing over-reliance on parametric instrumentality, at the expense of material invention and discovery. is gap has widened since the early promise of digital fabrication projects such as SHoP’s Camera Obscura, combining a sense of cra, detail and spatiality with parametric techniques and advanced fabrication. e shi towards automated robotic assembly, in addition to automated material fabrication, further complicates and distances the maker from the experience of making (Figure 23.4). is profound shi requires the (parametric, robotically aided) architect to renegotiate the process of making with respect to the material, economic, legal and social implications of automated fabrication.