Chapter 17. Production of Giant Projects Through High-Speed Adaptive Production, 10 / Fabrication of Luminous Glass Ceiling

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Fabrication of experimental glass panels, for a ceiling 25 meters by 50 meters, made directly by a computer-model mechanical fabrication technique from a hand-drawn sketch, then transferred to Photoshop for further processing.