digital fabrication

Project
A theatre of invention for Western Sydney
HDR’s Factory of the Future at Western Sydney University turns an awkward slice of Bankstown City Campus into a hands-on learning environment for robotics, digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing.

Project
Collectible architecture: Ellipsicoon Pavilion by UNStudio
Wouldn’t mind having a work by UNStudio in your backyard? Filipino prefab company Revolution Precrafted has released a digitally developed, hand-woven pavilion designed by Ben van Berkel.

Ideas
Art, science and digital fabrication with UNStudio
UNStudio is known as an innovator of digital technology with architecture. A recently completed shopping mall in Shanghai by the Dutch studio, Lane 189, offers an opportunity to explore formal complexity and a deep integration of façade and interior space – all inspired by art and science.

Ideas
Heatherwick Studio on Craft in a Machine Age
Digital design and fabrication methods can generate new forms that we’d have never otherwise imagined. But will there be something missing if human minds and hands are expelled from the process?

Project
Architectural Research, Material Applications: Meet AR-MA
Meet AR-MA, the experimental firm using innovative means and methods of design to make sure first impressions count.