Tectonics? A Case Study for Digital Free-Form Architecture

Abstract

The issue of tectonics began to be discussed in the architectural field in the nineteenth century. Recently, it has become a new issue again as the new digital space and new form appear as a result of the impact by the computer-aid design process. The objective of this research is to explore the preliminary framework of new tectonics in the digital space by analyzing the design cases. We aim to analyze and conclude the digital and non-digital factors in the new tectonics. Subsequently, this research concludes seven non-digital factors: joint, detail, material, object, structure, construction, interaction; and four new digital factors: motion, information, generation and fabrication