离散 自动化建构

The Discrete Automating Architecture

文章探讨了一系列围绕"离散"的核心概念,以及在自动化和建筑学层面展开的关于"离散"的论述。文章涵盖了20世纪90年代早期数字化作品的文化语境,并论证了将数字化视为融入社会和政治生活的一部分之必要性。此项研究通过描述离散的技术基础,试图理解机械工程学科视域下的数字材料与可编程物质与建筑学观念中的构件、装配式和模块化的关联。作者提出了一种建筑原型,并深入讨论了如何通过其设计方法扩展当前"设计—制造—装配"的标准。最后,文章论述了离散自动化在当代数字建筑学领域里的立场和观点,及其颠覆我们构建和介入建成环境的潜力。

This paper explores a series of core concepts around the "Discrete", as an architectural discourse on automation and architecture. It covers the broad cultural context for the work, coming out of the early digital work of the 1990 s and makes an argumentfor the need to consider the digital as enmeshed in the social and political. The research describes the technical basis of the discrete, as an attempt to understand the link between the mechanical engineering disciplines of Digital Materials and Programmable Matter and the architectural ideas of parts, prefabrication and modularity. The paper discusses one prototype in more depth and offers an insight in how the proposed method can scale up and continue existing Design for Manufacturing and Assembly standards. Ultimately, the paper advances an argument for Discrete Automation as a contemporary position on the digital in architecture, with disruptive potential for how we build and engage in the built environment.