Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

Christopher Beorkrem is associate professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Part 1: Timber/Wood Products Case Study 1: Dunescape, SHoP Architects Case Study 2: The Sequential Wall, Gramazio & Kohler Case Study 3: Stratifications/ Echord Gramazio & Kohler Case Study 4: Zip Rocker, Schindlersalmeron Case Study 5: ICD/ITKE Pavilion, Achim Menges and Jan Kippers Case Study 6: Winnipeg Skate Shelters/One Fold, Patkau Architects Case Study 7: Bodhi Tree PROJECTiONE Case Study 8: Hygroscopically Enabled Responsiveness Steffen Reichert - Achim Menges Case Study 9: Le Café Caché Sebastien Wierinck Case Study 10: Trondheim Camera Obscura, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Part 2: Metals Case Study 11: Real Good Chair, Blue Dot Case Study 12: Material Formations In Design, Elijah Porter Case Study 13: FlatForm, Marble Fairbanks Case Study 14: Croatian Pavilion, Leo Modrčin Case Study 15: Aqua Tower, Studio Gang Architects Case Study 16: Wave Pavilion Parke MacDowell and Diana Tomova Case Study 17: La Maison Unique Heatherwick Studio Case Study 18: Single Point Incremental Metal Forming Digital Arts Center Case Study 19: Between the Sheets, Heather Roberge, Instructor Case Study 20: MX3D Metal MX3D and Joris Laarman Lab Part 3: Concrete/Masonry Case Study 21: C.A.S.T. Beam, Mark West Case Study 22: P_Wall, Andrew Kudless Case Study 23: UnikaBeton, Asbjørn Søndergaard, Per Dombernowsky Case Study 24: 290 Mulberry Street, SHoP Architects Case Study 25: Structural Oscillations, Gramazio & Kohler Case Study 26: Freeform Catalan Thin-tile Vaults/MLK Stone, Phillipe Block Case Study 27: PreVault Dave Pigram, Ole Egholm Jackson, Niels Martin Larsen Part 4: Composites/Plastics Case Study 28: Composite Cladding Jefferson Ellinger Case Study 29: Periscope: Form Tower, Matter Design Case Study 30: Iridescence Print Gramazio & Kohler Case Study 31: Microtherme Matter Design Case Study 32: Varvac Wall Houminn Studio Case Study 33: bitMAPS PROJECTiONE Case Study 34: Feathered Edge Ball Nogues Studio Case Study 35: Elytra Filament Pavilion Achim Menges, Jan Knippers and Thomas Auer Part 5: Recycled/Pre-Cycled Case Study 36: P. F. 1 WORK.AC Case Study 37: Packed Tom Pawlofsky, Instructor Case Study 38: Bin Dome Rory Hyde Case Study 39: CHROMAtex.me SOFTlab Case Study 40: Pallet Canopy Digital Arts Center Case Study 41: Pipe Furniture Sebastien Wierinck Case Study 42: Table Cloth Ball Nogues Studio Image Credits. References. Index.