ABSTRACT
These projects represent meaningful responses to a process originally fostered by the excess and flippant use of digital manufacturing equipment and the incredible flexibility of design software. Each of the materials used here afford the designer the ability to argue that there is very little actual new consumption occurring on behalf of their design proposal. In some instances, the designers are using off-the-shelf units, often devoid of architectural typology or precedent, requiring that they develop a truly novel method constrained by a material parameter. Typically, these systems are developed through a series of tests, at first simply by disassembling the unit, then exploring how it can be reassembled into other more spatial mechanisms. Then through a series of both physical and digital models, using the constraints of the system to determine how a form could be applied at the scale of the human body.
