digitAl PlAster: A PrOTOTyPICAL DESIgN SySTEM

Abstract

Contemporary computational design processes offer more potential in the design of formally complex architectural outcomes when material processes and fabrication techniques are incorporated within a digital working methodology. This paper discusses the research project “Digital Plaster,” which showcases the development of a complex design system of cast forms based on the integration of digital and analog techniques. As a computational model it embodies the input of the fabrication and structural form-finding processes in flexible formwork plaster casting within an algorithmic behavior self-organizing system of architectural matter. Such an emergent system is defined by the synergic relationships of its parts throughout the whole process and acts upon its evolutionary growth. (CTRL+M 2011; Negroponte 1970).