Plane Delivery: Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication
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Plane Delivery Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication.pdf
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Published version
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7.51 MB
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Author(s)
Sass, Lawrence
Date Issued
July 3, 2025
Journal
Technology|Architecture + Design
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
Sass, L. (2025). Plane Delivery: Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication. Technology|Architecture + Design, 9(2), 279–287.
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Final published version
Abstract
There will come a day when computers and robots will participate regularly in designing, fabricating, and delivering homes as customized kits of parts (Sass Citation2008). They will not replace builders. Instead, one possible future is where computers and robots operate as intelligent assistants, discovering, reasoning, and inferring the best solutions using large language models (LLMs). This language will be vector-based on points, lines, and planes of the type Stiny described (Stiny Citation2006). A standard design and builder language is a first step towards automation. The proposed system is of a Lego-style approach to physical house production, used to manage costs, enhance design variety, improve design quality, and, most importantly, facilitate building.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2025.2557755
