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193: The Procurement Revolution with Chun Qing Li

Business of Architecture UK Podcast

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The Limits of Digital Fabrication

Is there a limit to what can be fabricated, if you like? Would we run into a situation where you're designing a building and there needs to be a kind of hybrid of traditional construction methods and digital fabrication. Or is the goal to have it like everything digitally fabricated? No, everything is some architectural products, the cladding panels or windows, doors, the product can buy them or bricks,. But we can instantiate the pure material, the shopping list. How many bricks do we need exactly? The brick slip system or the brackets, bolts and rigid panels? So it will penalize everything, it gives you a shopping list in a way.

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