Applications of digital fabrication in architecture, design and construction: processes of technological appropriation and socio-technical adaptation in experiments in South America
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https://doi.org/10.11606/gtp.v15i3.166255Keywords:
Digital fabrication, Technological appropriation, Socio-technical adequacy, architectural designAbstract
The article presents a taxonomy of projects related to the application of digital fabrication technologies in architecture, design, and construction, developed in the context of South America. As part of ongoing research, the material refers to the themes of technological appropriation, socio-technical adequacy, and social innovation. The objective is to categorize part of the design experiments identified during the investigation, showing a local perspective of the production strategies. The methods include a literature review and systematic review, mapping, questionnaire and case studies. The recent context of the installation of digital fabrication laboratories started in 2007 and has been expanded in institutions through teaching and research, in addition to the consolidation of the Fab Lab model. The practical results are very heterogeneous, still limited in scale and strongly based on the hybrid articulation between analog and digital, due to the available materials, the type of accessible machinery and the technical expertise required to produce them, but already directed to a problem-solving dynamics in the social aspect.
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Grant numbers 2017/04946-7