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After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation seems increasingly out of touch.This issue charts an emerging body of work that is based on a computational understanding of the discrete part or building block – elements that are as scalable, accessible and versatile as digital data. The discrete proposes that a new, digital understanding of assembly, based on parts, contains the greatest promise for a complex, open-ended, adaptable architecture. This approach capitalises on the digital economy and automation, with the potential of the digital to democratise production and increase access.The digital not only has deep implications for how we design and produce architecture; it is first and foremost a new system of production with economic, social and political consequences that need to be taken into account. This issue presents a diverse body of work focused on the notion of the discrete: from design experiments and aesthetics, to urban models, tectonics, distributed robots, new material organisations and post-capitalist scenarios engaging with automation.

Informatiesystemen --- Artificiële intelligentie. Robotica. Simulatie. Graphics --- Architectuur --- architectuur [vakgebied] --- computer aided design --- computervormgeving --- Design architectural --- Architecture --- Architectural design --- Design and technology. --- Informatique --- Conception assistée par ordinateur --- Data processing. --- Computer-aided design. --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- architecture [discipline] --- computer-aided design --- computer modeling --- Design architectural. --- Informatique. --- Conception assistée par ordinateur. --- computer-aided design [process] --- technologische innovatie

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Die Auseinandersetzung mit alten Konstruktionsprinzipien führt in Kombination mit der Entwicklung neuer digitaler grafischer Konstruktionsmethoden zu ungewöhnlichen Wegen in der Gestaltung selbsttragender Strukturen. Die Block Research Group der ETH Zürich beschreibt anhand ihres auf der Biennale 2016 in Venedig ausgezeichneten Armadillo Vault Entwicklungsprozesse und Visionen von ressourcenschonenden raffinierten Tragstrukturen ohne Stahl.Grundlegend ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Prinzipien Die Block Research Group ist DETAIL Leserpreisträger 2016. Setting new developments in digital graphic construction methods against the backdrop of time-tested design principles results in extraordinary approaches to the design of self-supporting structures. Using their Armadillo Vault, which was recognised at the Biennale 2016 in Venice, the Block Research Group at ETH Zürich describes their research, development processes and visions of resource-saving, refined and steel-free support structures. Fundamental to their work is an intensive exploration of principles. The Block Research Group is the DETAIL Reader Prize Winner for 2016.

Architecture. --- Shells (Engineering) --- Structural optimization. --- Shapes. --- Forms (Shapes) --- Shape --- Geometry --- Surfaces --- Optimal structural design --- Optimization, Structural --- Optimization of structural systems --- Optimum design of structures --- Optimum structural design --- Optimum structures --- Structures, Optimum design of --- Structural design --- Structural shells --- Elastic plates and shells --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Plates (Engineering) --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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Der Einsatz von Robotern in der Architektur ist schon heute Alltag: So automatisieren Roboter Vorgänge, die früher manuell erledigt wurden, es entstehen mit Hilfe von 3D-Druck-Robotern komplexe Formen und autonom agierende Schwarmroboter können im Zusammenspiel komplexe Bauten errichten. Wie wirkt sich der Einsatz von Robotern auf die so entstehenden Bauten eigentlich aus, wie beeinflusst er das Denken der Architekten, die mit Robotern arbeiten? Robotic Building geht diesen Fragen anhand von vielen praktischen Beispielen nach. Ein abschließendes Kapitel befasst sich mit der Idee von Architektur als Roboter, dem voll-automatisiertem Haus und ähnlichen Konzepten, in denen der Roboter mit der Umwelt verschmilzt und Teil unseres Erlebens wird. The use of robots in architecture is already commonplace: robots automate processes that were previously done manually. Complex shapes are created with the help of 3D printing while autonomous swarms of robots construct complex buildings. How does the use of robots affect the resulting structures; how does it affect the thinking of architects who work with robots? Robotic Building answers these questions with several practical examples. A final chapter explores the idea of architect as robot, the fully-automated home and similar concepts in which the robot merges with its environment and becomes part of our experience.

Architecture --- Technological innovations.

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