数字粗野主义的时代

The Age of Computational Brutalism

数字建造发展的第一阶段主要关注减材工艺,而第二阶段主要探索增材技术。当今,实验性数字设计师的研究兴趣开始逐渐转向自动化装配。从大约15年前格拉马齐奥和科勒的开创性建造实验开始,建筑和工程领域对工业机器人的创造性运用便开始在建筑层面和技术层面孕育出具有深远影响力的成果。文章对巴特莱特建筑学院的“数字粗野主义”的理论思辨进行了剖析,进而建立起它与当今超尺度的、体块化的构件形式语言以及离散化构件的堆叠设计方式之间的联系。

The first age of digital fabrication was dominated by subtractive technologies;the second by additive processes.For some time now the emphasis and the interest of experimental computational designers has shifted to automated processes of assembly.Starting with Gramazio and Kohler’s ground-breaking experiments almost 15 years ago,the creative adaption of industrial robots to building and construction has already produced significant architectural and technical results.This article reviews in particular the theoretical premises of the Bartlett school of "Computational Brutalism",marked by the showy display of oversized,chunky components and by aggregation of discrete parts.