1. can digital design combined with CAM techniques be used for de-standardization of building products?
most building products are manufactured in large quantities to make the production process a repeatable process and more cost efficient. digitally manufactured products could escape the need to be repetitive in form; a programmed robot won't notice whether it makes 1000 different parts or 1000 similar parts.
interesting research questions will be:
-where are building products in different shape, size color or whatever needed?
-which property in particular needs to be different?
-what types of production processes are suitable for making different shaped products?
-how large can the span of variables be in a single production process
2. adaptable structures that change according to changing demands from users or changing structural or environmental demands
adaptable architecture can serve several purposes. Mainly it will react to it's changing environment.
-what are changing environments that ask for a changing building?
for instance a structure loaded by changing wind loads (or other changing loads), a house with changing usage (living, sleeping, working), building in a changing climate (hot, cold, dry or humid)
-what type of change suites that particular changing envirmonment?
Some preliminary reactions:
BeantwoordenVerwijderen- formwork is an example of where products in different shape are needed. The EPFL learning center is an example where DesignToProduction automated the formwork production.
- Novum structures (formerly MERO structures) has a free-form structural system with custom produced nodes
- panelling is another example where products in different shape may be needed
Yannick Liem is currently doing a graduation project on a structure of a dome that is adaptable to changing wind loads. I could provide you with his report of the Computation and Performance Design Research Studio, if you're interested.