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Explores the onslaught of accurate digital metrology tools in large - and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. This book examines the capabilities of advanced technologies in design production through their impact on design theory, practice and greater levels of collaboration between design and manufacturing.

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL 5
Helen Castle

ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR 6
Bob Sheil

INTRODUCTION High Definition: Negotiating Zero Tolerance 8
Bob Sheil

Digital Doppelgängers: Future Scanscapes 20
Matthew Shaw and William Trossell

Arraying Territories: Remote Sensing and Escalation in the North 30
Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino

Tracking, Tagging and Scanning the City 40
Andrew Hudson-Smith

What We Want Is in That Room 48
Ilona Gaynor and Benedict Singleton

Drawing into the Cloud 54
Birgir Örn Jónsson

Landschaft: Revisiting The Journey and Drive-In House 60
Michael Webb

Tripping the Flight Fantastic: Slipstream, Terminal 2, Heathrow Airport 74
Ralph Parker and Tim Lucas

Gehry Partners’ Fondation Louis Vuitton: Crowdsourcing Embedded Intelligence 82
Tobias Nolte and Andrew Witt

Diffusive Thermal Architecture: New Work from the Hylozoic Series 90
Philip Beesley

Animating Architecture: Coupling High-Definition Sensing with High-Definition Actuation 100
Ruairi Glynn

Impossible Objects 106
Brandon Kruysman and Jonathan Proto

To the Micron: A New Architecture Through High-Resolution Multi-Scalar Design and Manufacturing 112
Richard Beckett and Sarat Babu

4D Printing: Multi-Material Shape Change 116
Skylar Tibbits

Soft Tolerance: An Approach for Additive Construction on Site 122
Marta Malé-Alemany and Jordi Portell

COUNTERPOINT: Why We Need Architecture of Tolerance 128
Branko Kolarevic

CONTRIBUTOR 133

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 31/01/2014
      ISBN13: 9781118451854, 978-1118451854
      ISBN10: 1118451856
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the onslaught of accurate digital metrology tools in large - and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. This book examines the capabilities of advanced technologies in design production through their impact on design theory, practice and greater levels of collaboration between design and manufacturing.

      Table of Contents

      EDITORIAL 5
      Helen Castle

      ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR 6
      Bob Sheil

      INTRODUCTION High Definition: Negotiating Zero Tolerance 8
      Bob Sheil

      Digital Doppelgängers: Future Scanscapes 20
      Matthew Shaw and William Trossell

      Arraying Territories: Remote Sensing and Escalation in the North 30
      Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino

      Tracking, Tagging and Scanning the City 40
      Andrew Hudson-Smith

      What We Want Is in That Room 48
      Ilona Gaynor and Benedict Singleton

      Drawing into the Cloud 54
      Birgir Örn Jónsson

      Landschaft: Revisiting The Journey and Drive-In House 60
      Michael Webb

      Tripping the Flight Fantastic: Slipstream, Terminal 2, Heathrow Airport 74
      Ralph Parker and Tim Lucas

      Gehry Partners’ Fondation Louis Vuitton: Crowdsourcing Embedded Intelligence 82
      Tobias Nolte and Andrew Witt

      Diffusive Thermal Architecture: New Work from the Hylozoic Series 90
      Philip Beesley

      Animating Architecture: Coupling High-Definition Sensing with High-Definition Actuation 100
      Ruairi Glynn

      Impossible Objects 106
      Brandon Kruysman and Jonathan Proto

      To the Micron: A New Architecture Through High-Resolution Multi-Scalar Design and Manufacturing 112
      Richard Beckett and Sarat Babu

      4D Printing: Multi-Material Shape Change 116
      Skylar Tibbits

      Soft Tolerance: An Approach for Additive Construction on Site 122
      Marta Malé-Alemany and Jordi Portell

      COUNTERPOINT: Why We Need Architecture of Tolerance 128
      Branko Kolarevic

      CONTRIBUTOR 133

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