Joint Research

Abstract

The question of detailing joints between manual and digital architectural construction is an area of practice which is still undergoing a search for formative principles within the established organizational strategies of the discipline1. The merging of digital and analog means of architectural production and construction should yield sustainable efficiencies, but contemporary buildings are rife with uncomfortable hybrids of both techniques resulting in monstrous juxtapositions2. Both literal and conceptual, the joints of this study are manifest in design processes, drawing, construction techniques, contracts, and architectural theory. These joints are of both technical consequence and aesthetic opportunity for integrated practice.