ABSTRACT

Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure draws together emerging topics of making that span primary forms of craftsmanship to digital fabrication in order to theoretically and practically analyze the innovative and interdisciplinary relationship between digital fabrication technology and interior design. The history of making in interior design is aligned with traditional crafts, but a parallel discourse with digital fabrication has yet to be made evident.

This book repositions the praxis of experimental prototyping and integrated technology to show how the use of digital fabrication is inherent to the interior scales of body, objects and enclosure. These three scales act as a central theme to frame contributions that reinforce the interdisciplinary nature of interior design and reinterpret traditional crafts by integrating new methods of making into conventional workflows. Featuring significant international practitioners and researchers, the selected contributions represent the ever-increasing interdisciplinary nature of design, demonstrating a breadth of disciplines.

A foundational text for interiors students and practitioners, Digital Fabrication in Interior Design expands the necessary dialogue about digital fabrication at the scale of interiors to inform design theory and practice.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |59 pages

Body

chapter 1|16 pages

Iris van Herpen

The Art of Fashioning the Future

chapter 2|14 pages

Great Mistakes

chapter 3|17 pages

Fashion and Technology

The Intangible as a Working Material

chapter 4|10 pages

Random Bodies

PRAXIS: Random International

part |87 pages

Object

chapter 6|16 pages

Materiality and Objecthood

Reflections on the Work of Geoffrey Mann

chapter 7|9 pages

Soft Objects

PRAXIS: Assa Studio

chapter 8|16 pages

The Rise of the Generalist

Imaginative Architectural Practices in the Age of Digital Technology

chapter 10|15 pages

Emerging Objects

part |86 pages

Enclosure

chapter 11|18 pages

Emergent Enclosures

Granular Architectures

chapter 12|15 pages

Three Ensembles

chapter 13|15 pages

Occupying Categorical Limits

Material, Attitude and Assembly PRAXIS: FreelandBuck

chapter 14|12 pages

Conical Hinges

Shaping Ambiguous Enclosures

chapter 15|12 pages

The Figure in Translation

chapter |12 pages

Endnote - Trajectory

Cradling Bodies: Trajectories of Minds, Objects and Enclosures