This brief movie features diverse professors, research colleagues, and the department of Architecture's chairman at MIT demonstrating how they aim to create the future standard for building materials. Through a variety of experiments, the institution aspires to mold the conventions of the construction industry in terms of material use to prevent waste and facilitate the creation of innovative architectural structures.
The school realises that it has powerful departments that are able to radicalise how design and architecture is done. By understanding that the invention of human artefacts consists of geometry, process, and material, the experiments can be made to engender new forms in architectural design to benefit the industry's appliance of appropriate materials at any point in the construction process.
The discussion is looking into what you can build aside from what you can design. One of the main questions is whether you can replicate the building materials and design on a large scale to come up with spaces that are inhabitable. Additionally, the department is investigating what architecture can do in terms of material fabrication to take care of places and scenarios where it is currently difficult to build.
The experiments and tests are done using 3D prints to get better results on material quality, how it bends, folds, stacks, or stretches. As Professor of practice, Sheila Kennedy, says, the challenge today is in material fabrication; not digital fabrication. Watch the video courtesy of MIT Architecture and Film Producer, Chris Jennings, to learn more.
