X-BOUNDARIES
Volume 25,00€
Descrizione
X-Boundaries is both a book and a tool for innovation. It offers methods of bridging multiple disciplines and guides readers to develop transformative solutions. By fostering a collaborative mindset and encouraging cross-disciplinary thinking, it provides a roadmap for radical creativity in design and construction, empowering “glue people” to spark breakthroughs and reshape the future of the built environment.
Divided into four parts – materials, technologies, designs, and projects – X-Boundaries guides readers through key material characteristics, cutting-edge fabrication technologies, and advanced form discretization strategies. A curated selection of INDEXLAB’s original research projects illustrates how leveraging material and technological strengths within an algorithmic, CNC-driven workflow can yield new construction systems. All of this lays the groundwork for an ongoing exploration of new frontiers in design and manufacturing, challenging the concept of boundaries and pushing the limits of what is possible in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
Pierpaolo Ruttico is an architect-engineer and researcher at Politecnico di Milano, specializing in complex constructions and advanced production processes. He previously worked in New York City for Pelli Clarke & Partners, then earned a Ph.D. in Building Engineering, with a specialization in non-standard geometries. He is the founder and director of INDEXLAB, a multidisciplinary research group established in 2010. INDEXLAB explores contemporary architectural languages, pioneering advanced processes in digital fabrication, machine learning, and robotics.
“Spanning over 15 years of work at INDEXLAB, this richly illustrated volume explores the future of architecture through the convergence of materials, digital fabrication technologies, and design thinking.
Both a hands-on guide and a conceptual atlas, it invites readers to discover how a creative and playful use of computational processes can redefine the boundaries of architectural practice.”
Fabio Gramazio
