Fabrication - the other "F-word" in Architectural Praxis
This webinar was part of the RAIC 2021 Virtual Conference on Architecture
Topics: Sustainability, Technology and Construction
Length: 1 hour | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion
This webinar is available to stream!
Fabrication is no longer a term isolated to the technical innovators of the AEC industry – it is a ubiquitous component of academia and rapidly gaining traction in contemporary practice. As with normalizing of sustainable design and use of BIM, the bespoke is yet another expectation on contemporary practice. File to factory is an inevitability. This session proposes where and how architectural practices acquire this knowledge base is neither standardized nor immediately accessible. Architecture has always been the creative manipulation of data in fabricating the built world. At this point in history, access to the design knowledge, technological acumen, and skilled services do not drive architectural innovation, they are necessities for professional survival. The classic model of “design, draft, and deploy” with a conventional construction palette is giving way to a seamless file to factory paradigm where creative mass customization is at a designer’s disposal. Drawing upon examples and voices from academia, practice, fabricators, construction and case studies, this session delves into the opportunities architectural praxis will undertake as it increasingly adopts a file to factory paradigm.
This session is sponsored by BDP Quadrangle
Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe and identify the resources, including knowledge bases, technologies, and services, available and required to operate in a file to factory paradigm;
- Recognize the costs and benefits in transitioning to a file to factory paradigm;
- Assess gaps in operations and develop a workflow integrating options for support in an architectural practice;
- Identify appropriate fabrication resources for implementation within an architectural practice.
Subject Matter Experts
Eric Bury, B.Arch, B.ES / Director of Project Development, Eventscape
Vincent Hui, BES, MArch, MBA, MRAIC / Associate Professor | Associate Chair, Experiential Learning and Co-operative Education at Ryerson University, Department of Architectural Science
Pricing A-La-Carte
Member: $50 / Non-Member: $75
Intern Member: $35 / Intern Non-Member: $50
Student: $25 (must be an RAIC student associate member)
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