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URBAN POINTS OF REST An emerging digitally fabricated modular system
Agathon (2021)
  • Lina Ahmad, Zayed University
  • Marco Sosa, Zayed University
Abstract
The paper presents a case study of a developed production system designed to produce customized social settings and spatial enclosures, responding to specific social needs of a particular group within an identified social unit. The paper describes the relation between digital fabrication and the rules for design and assembly; how varied interlinked parameters are generated towards the realization of the final design. The presented case study narrates and reflects upon the system deployment within a selected context; an academic regional setting with a monocultural learners’ population. Going back and forth between practical and digital evaluation, the paper describes the sequential stages of applied design and several prototypes realization. The case study; Urban points of rest, argues for a design variation within formulated digital fabrication systems in par with user participation. 
Keywords
  • Lean-production,
  • discrete architecture,
  • digital fabrication,
  • community involvement,
  • prototype
Publication Date
Spring February 1, 2021
DOI
10.19229/978-88-5509-232-6/5152021
Citation Information
Lina Ahmad and Marco Sosa. "URBAN POINTS OF REST An emerging digitally fabricated modular system" Agathon Vol. 5 (2021) p. 232 - 247 ISSN: 2704-615X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marco-sosa/5/