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Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM:
Reinventing the Urban Diner
Harvard University |
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Preface
Digital Design and Manufacturing Techniques have greatly impacted the way many things are designed and made - from everyday consumer products to cars, ships and airplanes. Sophisticated digital design environments, virtual and rapid prototyping methods and computuational simulation and analysis tools have greatly enabled our ability to produce custom work in individual or mass manufacturing environments. Combined with concepts such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time delivery, these design tools shorten design development cycles and reduce the time-to-market for an increasingly complex range of products.
Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) technologies in architecture have altered the ways components are made but little impact has been felt in design and design practice. Computer-Aided Design in conventional architecural practice - technology which could easily enable a variety of new activities within the studio - is still largely disconnected from the Computer-Aided-Manufacturing processes used to define, fabricate, and deliver many of the components and larger building elements used to construct our designs. This studio explored connecting the two worlds of design and manufacturing more closely by proposing new design methods and design solutions for a hybrid buidling type - the pre-manufactured urban diner.
Cambridge, March 2003
Martin Bechthold
Kimo Griggs
Contents
Diners Revisited
Historic Overview
Incorporating CAD/CAM Technologies in the Design Studio
Design Problem
Program and Site
Parametri Design
Design Projects
Marc Oldham
Chung Ping Lee
Scott Snyder
Noah Brosowski
Evan Brinkman
Alex Gil
Yetunde Olaiya
Brandon Padron
John Nastasi
Concluding Remarks
A CAD/CAM Studio
Publication Title
Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Reinventing the Urban Diner
Year Published
2003, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Editor(s)/Author(s)
Kimo Griggs, Martin Bechthold, editors