As designers, we can no longer ignore the use of computational and digital aided design. Though many may still detest the use of these tools, altercating about how our dependency of such technologies has led to a serious decline in our social, ethical and cultural values, we cannot refute the advantages and benefits they have brought to us in the twenty first century. Computational design has opened a world of possibilites previously inaccessbile with the pen and paper. The common misconception that designers are only limited by their creativity and ingenuity is no longer valid. We must embrace and revel in the new age of design. Renouncing what is to become is quite simply, futile.
In this context, MSD Studio 20 seeks to explore the limitatons of computational and digital architecture by testing the nature of virtual and free-form architectural compositions in applications of form resistant structures such as shells and gridshells. With the impact of the “digital” is growing expone
