DRAW.CUT.BUILD

Recently I have been researching for my dissertation and found this project called DRAW.CUT.BUILD, it is built by Keita Tajima and Zhi Xiong Chang(two former students of the Architectural Association) in London. It utilises the same fabrication in model making as in the construction both being drawn on a computer. The model has been laser cut and the 1:1 components have been CNC cut. This digital fabrication has removed the need for representation in architecture. The model that Keita and Xiong built is essentially the same as the realised building.

Hairywood

Some of you may have seen this before, but It is a project I really enjoy and has a good sense of fun about it, I have laser cur models myself and this is an interesting interpretation, or application of a similar process of making. This is the text from the architect eley kishimoto's website

A collaboration with 6a architects, the HAIRYWOOD project played with ideas of defining space and creating place through the interaction of structure and pattern repeat. The 6.3m tower with raised public space was launched at the opening of The Yard, the Architecture Foundation’s new gallery.
Here are some images I found below from flickr courtesy of erase and
McTumshie



If you look on the website of the architect you can find the models of the tower, suprisingly these are not laser cut, perhaps this would have been a representation took close to the end product. after all it is better to leave some things to the imagination.