The Digital age in architecture reached a point of maturity where a quick and seamless transition drives the relation between design and fabrication. Indeed the digital chain, i.e. the continuous transition between the different development scales of the project has gotten tighter and tighter.

The complexity resulting of the non standard architecture has been fully absorbed by the technological means; the direct translation of the designed shapes into G code (the fabrication files) ensures the exact transcription of a generative but controlled shape into a fully computed non standard geometry assembly.

This dome has to be understood as the demonstration of this consistent work- flow setup between design and fabrication. The design has gone through quick design iterations for five days, constantly evolving through fabrication models replicating the connection details driven by the project’s constraints.

The result is a self-standing dome built as an assembly of fifty sheets of hand folded aluminum sheets (1x1m) cut over a weekend workshop.