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Architectural Design and Modeling

A course offered at the University of Tennessee's College of Architecture and Design uses a Techno LC Series Router to help "explore how Digital Manufacturing techniques reveal beauty, structure and technique latent within topographical surface modeling." Course instructor, Andrew Thurlow has setup a Project Web site that gives great detail to this fascinating study. View some of the pictures below or visit Professor Thurlow's Web site at: www.arch.utk.edu/DM

"The Digital Manufacturing (DM) course sponsors research that explores how the change from standardized industrial processes to digitally-based fabrication methods promotes new ornament in architecture, one that integrates structure, program and beauty. These design investigations examine the possibilities of surface modulation through digital manufacturing, a process that exploits the reciprocal effects between digital information and material production."

-Andrew Thurlow
Assistant Professor
UT College of Architecture + Design

Pictures From The Course's Mid-Term Review
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Selected Pictures From The Jean Prouve Group
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View more architectural project pictures at: www.arch.utk.edu/DM