'Nonstandard' techniques have so far been celebrated as liberating alternatives to the homogenising formal tendencies of mass production. Nonstandard production, however, has continued to require the use of standardised input material, the prototypical example being the ubiquitous stacked plywood milled model. Such practices constitute an unnecessarily inefficient production circuit that moves from nonstandard input such as a tree to standardised stock material such as plywood or dimensional lumber, and back to nonstandard forms through digital fabrication.rnA more direct translation was proposed in the design of a workshop building for digital fabrication, a project developed in the thesis programme at Princeton University School of Architecture in the spring of 2010.
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