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Hold Up (2018-09)

Machine Delay in Architectural Design

10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_10

 Cohen Zach
Contribution - Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018, pp. 126-138

Abstract

This paper introduces an architectural design approach that is founded on working with digital fabrication machines, materials, and time. This approach is called Machine Delay Fabrication. Machine Delay Fabrication is contextualized within the lineage of productive delays using two examples from other creative disciplines. It is then contrasted with the “real-time” approach to digital fabrication research and practice. The concept of machine delay is outlined along with the three types of machine delay that are pertinent to digital fabrication. A new concrete 3D printing method called pointillistic time-based deposition, or dripping, is introduced as an example of Machine Delay Fabrication. The setup and variables of dripping are discussed, along with some experimental findings. Finally, dripping is used to demonstrate the constructive and aesthetic possibilities of Machine Delay Fabrication in architectural design.

3 References

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4 Citations

  1. Raphael Benny, Senthilnathan Shanmugaraj, Patel Abhishek, Bhat Saqib (2023-01)
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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{cohe.2019.HU,
  author            = "Zach Cohen",
  title             = "Hold Up: Machine Delay in Architectural Design",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_10",
  year              = "2019",
  pages             = "126--138",
  booktitle         = "Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018: Radical Cross-Disciplinarity",
  editor            = "Jan Willmann and Philippe Block and Marco Hutter and Kendra Byrne and Tim Schork",
}
Formatted Citation

Z. Cohen, “Hold Up: Machine Delay in Architectural Design”, in Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018: Radical Cross-Disciplinarity, 2019, pp. 126–138. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_10.

Cohen, Zach. “Hold Up: Machine Delay in Architectural Design”. In Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018: Radical Cross-Disciplinarity, edited by Jan Willmann, Philippe Block, Marco Hutter, Kendra Byrne, and Tim Schork, 126–38, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_10.