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PROCESS OF FABRICATION AND ASSEMBLY Preface 'Handcraft was once the tool of commodity, but today it is the machine that is the tool of commodity. Therefore, architecture produced as an industrial product would naturally become a new vernacular. ' by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake (extracted from 'The Hand and The Machine' Chapter of Refrabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised To Transform Building Construction) Traditionally architecture physical models were hand-made to express the ideas, concepts, materials, lighting, space, human activity and scale in three dimensional form. Nowadays, high technology has been introduced to create complicated design models, making a shift from hand-made to factory-made models. Before fabricating 3 precedent models, UNSW BENV7813 Course students are introduced by ...
