Personal Fabrication: Open source 3D Printers

Open Source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No 10 pp.14-15 (October 2010)

ACM Digital Library

Dimitris Kottas (2010) Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques

Table of Contents (Spanish version)
Fabricación

• Urba A&O: Bone Wall,  Stand para Metropolis, La Torre Cairo
• Alan Dempsey & Alvin Huang [C]space
• Mike McKay: PERFORMA_08
• Atelier Marferdini: West Coast Pavilion, Merletti
• Emergent / Tom Wiscombe: Playa Urbana P.S. 1 / MoMA
• Nader Tehrani: Un cambio de estado, Immaterial / Ultramaterial 
• Tobias Klein & Roberto Bottazzi: Topotable
• Thom Faulders + Studio M: Airspace Tokyo
• AION, Aleksandra Jaeschke & Andrea Di Stefano: Continous Laminae
• AEDS Ammar Eloueini: Pleats Please, Issey Miyake, CoReFab 71
• Florencia Pita: Pulse Tendril Formations
• Iwamoto Scott Architecture: Voussoir Cloud
• THEVERYMANY: Echinoids, Aperiodic Vertebrae v2.0, n|Edg

Scripting

• Kokkugia: Fibrous Tower, Swarm Matter, Taipei Performing Arts Center
• Tobias Bonwetsch, Sebastian Gmelin, Bergit Hillner, Bart Mermans, Jan Przerwa, Arno Schlueter, Rafael Schmidt: m.any
• Jerry Tate Architects: Hotel Dubai Waterfront, Sorrento Bathing Platfom
• Elena Maferdini / Alexis Rochas: Vision Wall
• Caterina Tiazzoldi: Parametric Bookshelves, Parametric Stalactites.
• Caterina Tiazzoldi + Eduardo Benamor Duarte: Porcupine
• Brian Brush, Yong Ju Lee, Leah Meisterlin: Ornamental Connectivity.
• Brian Brush, Yong Ju Lee: Softhelf
• Elbo Group & Studio Lynn: Technicolor Bloom
• davidclovers & C.E.B. Reas: Yud Yud
• Tang & Yang Architects: Geno Matrix
• MESNE: Strange Attractor
• UTS master class & Chris Bosse: Digital Origami
• Supermanoeuvre + Kokkugia: Morphogenetic Lattice
• Supermanoeuvre + Matter Design: Supermatter
• Supermanoeuvre: Proto-Synthesis & Trabeculae, Especiación inorgánica: materia comportamiento y formación en arquitectura.

Interactividad

• Servo & Smart Studio Interactive Institute Stockholm: Lattice Archipelogics
• Servo: Spoorg
• cero9: Formas de energía. La Biennale di Venezia
• Emergent / Tom Wiscombe: Flower Street BioReactor
• Philip Beesley: Hylozoic Soil, Cybele, Orgone Reef

Poesía

• Xefirotarch / Hernán Días Alonso: Lautner Redux, Tabakalera International Comtemporary Culture Centre, Warsaw Museum.
• S. Chen / N. Cook / M. Sanes: Suspended Distention
• Tobias Klein: Synthetic Syncretism, Soft Inmortality
• Minmaforms: Archigram Revisited
• Tobias Klein / Dietmar Koring / Philipp Utermohl: Cultural mutations Urban Permaculture Londres 2020
• Dietmar Koring: P[a]laste & Elaste
• Florencia Pita: Alice
• Terreform ONE> Homeway The greatest suburban exodus, Rapid Re(f)use
• Jorge Ayala: Ecotransitional Urbanism
• Jaenes Bong / Jonathan Alotto: Biometamorphic architecture
• Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui> Plantmorphic Void
• Yaojen Chung: Opium, Chronicles of a cure

Bibliograf'ia
Reviews / Product description

• Amazon, Amlibros (spanish)
• Jorge Ayala, Mitchell Joachim

PAPress: Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

Lisa Iwamoto
ISBN 9781568987903 (published 8/1/2009)
A PAPress publication; Series Architecture Briefs

From the publisher
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projects featuring complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms.
The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold.
Digital Fabrications presents projects designed and built by emerging practices that pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale with a do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects include AEDS/Ammar Eloueini, Atelier Manferdini, Brennan Buck, MOS, Office dA, Florencia Pita/MOD, Mafoombey, URBAN A+O (The bone wall), SYSTEMarchitects, Design 306, Andrew Kudless/Matsys, Iwamoto Scott, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT, Thom Faulders Architecture, Jeremy Ficca, SPAN (Gradient Scale + Housing in Vienna), GNUFORM, Heather Roberge, PATTERNS, Ruy Klein, servo and Alan Dempsey+Alvin Huang.

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Edited by Yusuke Obuchi and Alan Dempsey

Created as part of the 2008 tenth anniversary celebrations of the Design Research Laboratory, the AA DRL TEN Pavilion is one of those built projects that push the conventions in architecture and structural engineering as well as the building materials industry.

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