Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

Christopher Beorkrem is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Introduction 1. Timber/Wood Dunescape, SHoP Architects. Immaterial/Ultramaterial, Nader Tehrani. The Sequential Wall, Gramazio and Kohler. The Ripple Wall, Digital Arts Center. Zip Tooth Rocker, Schindlersalmeron. ICD/ITKE Pavilion, Achim Menges. Winnipeg Skate Shelters, Patkau Architects. Responsive Surface Structures, Steffen Reichert and Achim Menges. Stratifications, Gramazio and Kohler. Trondheim Camera Obscura, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2. Metals Real Good Chair, Blue Dot Furniture. Material Formations In Design, Elijah Porter. FlatForm, Marbie Fairbanks. Croatian Pavilion, Venice Biennale Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Leo Modrcin. Frank Residence, Happy Box Architecture. Aqua Tower – Freeform, Studio Gang Architects. La Maison Unique – Longchamp Flagship Store, Heatherwick Studio. Between the Sheets, Heather Roberge 3. Concrete/Masonary C.A.S.T. Beam, Mark West. P_Wall, Matsys. UnikaBeton, Asbjorn Sondergaard. 290 Mulberry Street, SHoP Architects. Structural Oscillations, Gramazio and Kohler. Freeform Catalan Thin-tile Vaults, Philippe Block 4. Hybrids Feathered Edge, Ball Nogues Studio. CHROMAtex.me, SoftLab. MoMA PS1 Canopy, nArchitects. Periscope Tower, Matter Design. CoreFab-Nubik, Ammar Eloueini. Spanish Pavilion, Foreign Office Architects. 5. Recycled/Pre-Cycled Public Farm, WORK.AC. Packed, Tom Pawlofsky. Carborigami, Tine Hovsepian. Pallet Canopy, Digital Arts Centre UNC Charlotte. Pipe Furniture, Sebastien Wiernick. Table Cloth, Ball Nogues Studio.