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Figure 72: A contemporary version of R. Krauss’s ‘Klein Group’ used to model the<br />

context within which the researcher’s practice is located.<br />

The conjunction of ‘product design’ and ‘building design’ suggests the activity<br />

undertaken by architecture firm Sharples Holden Pasquarelli’s (SHoP) on their<br />

Camera Obscura for Greenport, Long Island, New York. The architects claim<br />

this to be the first building to be entirely computer designed and CNC<br />

fabricated. The building consists of a kit of digitally designed, custom-made<br />

parts in a way more usually related to consumer product development. Other<br />

examples of this would be NIO Architecten’s ‘Amazing Whale Jaw’ bus station at<br />

Spaarne Hospital in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. This structure was CNC<br />

machined from polystyrene. The various parts were assembled on-site, glued<br />

together and coated with polyester resin. Another so far unbuilt example would<br />

be Thomas Heatherwick Studio’s proposed temple for Kagoshima, Japan. The<br />

design of this structure was captured from a laser-scanned piece of fabric.<br />

These all represent examples of the development of a new order of object:<br />

‘fabricated buildings’. These explore the potential of computer-based design<br />

and fabrication tools that might afford the implementation of new production<br />

paradigms, design vocabularies and methodologies. The use of computer<br />

numerically controlled (CNC) fabrication has created the ability to generate<br />

construction information directly from design information which has<br />

fundamentally changed the relationship between conception and production.<br />

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