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Design - Make : the translation of design intention to fabrication

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McLain, James R
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Translation of design intention to fabrication
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Lawrence Sass.
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Abstract
The process of making innovative buildings is stifled by our current methodology of communicating design information. Advances in new techniques, technologies, methods, materials and knowledge for both designers and constructors have failed to successfully be implemented into the building industry because of our reliance on traditional methods of transmission and exchange. The purpose of this thesis is to survey our current methods and propose an alternative process of communicating complex design information through a hypothetical design problem and subsequent physical fabrication. The objective of the research is to develop a process for designing, communicating and making of innovative parts / assemblies that will allow designers and fabricators to efficiently increase the quality of the products they produce.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.
 
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
 
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-99).
 
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2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41565
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.

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