Author Description

Christopher Beorkrem Shows How Material Performance Drives The Digital Fabrication Process And Determines Technique. He Has Recreated And Dissected Thirty-six Of The Most Progressive Works Of Architecture Of The Last Few Years, With Perspectives From The Designers So That You Can Learn From The Successes And Failures Of Each Project. Including Step-by-step Diagrams And Using Consistent Language And The Simplest Construction Techniques, He Identifies The Important Characteristics Of Each Material, Including Connection Types, Relative Costs, Deformation, Color, Texture, Finish, Dimensional Properties, Durability, And Weathering And Waterproofing To Link The Design Outcomes To Form. The Book Is Divided Into Five Parts By Material – Wood, Metal, Concrete, Hybrids, And Recycled – To Help You Reference Construction Techniques For The Fabrication Machines You Have On-hand. Timber/wood: Dunescape / Shop Architects; Immaterial/ultramaterial / Nader Tehrani; The Sequential Wall / Gramazio & Kohler; The Ripple Wall / Digital Arts Center; Ziprocker / Schindlersalmerón; Icd/itke Pavilion / Achim Menges And Jan Kippers; Winnipeg Skate Shelters / Patkau Architects; Responsive Surface Structure / Steffen Reichert, Achim Menges, Instructor; Stratifications / Gramazio & Kohler; Trondheim Camera Obscura / Norwegian University Of Science And Technology -- Metals: Real Good Chair / Blu Dot; Material Formations In Design / Elijah Porter; Flatform / Marble Fairbanks; Croatian Pavilion / Leo Modrčin, Et Al.; Frank Residence Addition / Happy Box Architecture; Aqua Tower / Studio Gang Architects; La Maison Unique / Heatherwick Studio; Between The Sheets / Heather Roberge, Instructor -- Concrete/masonry: C.a.s.t. Beam / Mark West; P_wall / Andrew Kudless; Unikabeton / Asbjørn Søndergaard, Per Dombernowsky; 290 Mulberry Street / Shop Architects; Freeform Catalan Thin-tile Vaults / Philippe Block -- Hybrids: Feathered Edge / Ball Nogues Studio; Chromatex.me / Softlab; Moma Ps1 Canopy / Narchite