ABSTRACT
Architecture is undoubtedly a system, the on-going mediation of vast matter/material hierarchies to social, economic, historical, contextual and environmental influence. Whether passive, active or impartial, materiality defines pivotal aspects towards the governing and engagement of an architectural system. When defined as a material-inherent system, the methods and technologies for material formation are investments of both a literal and conceptual nature. Modes of fabrication, as the processes of materialization, are the literal agents in defining physicality, dictating the means by which the system operates as a spatial material form. More critically, where form itself is a dynamic system, its materialization simultaneously imparts the conceptual qualities and capacities for how one engages architecture. The depths of material hierarchy at which modes of fabrication can be instrumentalized determine the potentials and precision of the architectural system to be cognizant and reactive to its critical stimuli.
