Digital manufacturing and assembly technologies are rapidly evolving. Socially engaging buildings that integrate these technologies are rare. Architectural technologists and manufacturing industry alike champion DfMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) and vertically integrated project delivery to achieve UN sustainable development goals. In the meantime, users of buildings have other concerns.
Housing and other forms of socially important architectural and urban development problems will not be solved by vertically integrated project delivery alone. It could however be solved by democratizing good design - creating the interactive design-assist and decision support tools, creating spatial presets, and smart design modules derived from high-performance (spatial & ecological) global best practices that are being demonstrated by the bleeding edge architectural and engineering firms.
Put simply, good ‘Design’ - the D in DfMA - is critical. This presentation will illustrate the first-principle approach taken by Zaha Hadid Architects to address good design and its democratization borrowing along the way, technologies from other tech-enabled, cultural domains like video games, movies and music.
Digital manufacturing and assembly technologies are rapidly evolving. Socially engaging buildings that integrate these technologies are rare. Architectural technologists and manufacturing industry alike champion DfMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) and vertically integrated project delivery to achieve UN sustainable development goals. In the meantime, users of buildings have other concerns.
Housing and other forms of socially important architectural and urban development problems will not be solved by vertically integrated project delivery alone. It could however be solved by democratizing good design - creating the interactive design-assist and decision support tools, creating spatial presets, and smart design modules derived from high-performance (spatial & ecological) global best practices that are being demonstrated by the bleeding edge architectural and engineering firms.
Put simply, good ‘Design’ - the D in DfMA - is critical. This presentation will illustrate the first-principle approach taken by Zaha Hadid Architects to address good design and its democratization borrowing along the way, technologies from other tech-enabled, cultural domains like video games, movies and music.
