Design-Build
Projects that integrate design and construction processes, exploring how making informs design decisions.
Design-build represents an integrated approach where designers and builders collaborate throughout a project's lifecycle. This methodology challenges traditional separation between design conception and physical construction, allowing real-world constraints and material behavior to shape outcomes.
The community explores robotic fabrication systems, interactive construction platforms, and projects where the act of making becomes a generative design tool. Work ranges from automated architectural construction to speculative organisms and adaptive systems that emerge through the building process itself.
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View all 5 journalsWhen Making Becomes Designing
Rethinking Craft in the Age of Digital Fabrication
BUILD|APP: An Interactive Platform Where Robotic Arms Construct Architecture Over Water
A shortlisted Athenaeum entry imagines a waterfront application that lets users design, fabricate, and assemble modular spaces with robotic precision.