Emerging Architectural Potentials of Tunable Materiality through Additive Fabrication Technologies
formal description of fabricated artefacts that can emerge through a coupled performance of both digital and analogue properties. Form is perceived not as static materialisation, but rather as a dynamic domain with characteristic properties that are activated through the material engaging with its environment. The conceptual understanding of these design processes have to utilise synthesis and analysis alike to gain an understanding of the formgiving processes at work. Despite the complexity of material performance created in this way, which could potentially elude a reductionist understanding of its functionality, successful design strategies can be developed in fair approximation through coupling digital and physical analysis methods. This domain of performance, on the other hand, can provide a novel locus for design and artistic activity in which the impact of abstract formgiving drivers are negotiated through structural performance into a distinct formal language that is less determined yet characteristic.
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