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Digitally Fabricated House

Assistant Professor Larry Sass, director of the MIT Digital Design and Fabrication Group, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to design, fabricate and assemble the first entirely digitally fabricated house for their 2008 show, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. The exhibit features five full scale houses on the MoMA’s vacant exterior lot along with an interior exhibit which focuses on the history of factory-made and prefabricated housing throughout the world.

The design is a digital translation of the New Orleans’ style Shotgun House, complete with an ornamental front façade and a porch elevated off the ground on piers to allow flood-waters to rise and fall beneath the house. Every component of the house, from the structural members to the frieze ornamentation, was first digitally modeled and then CNC fabricated from plywood and plastic for a precise interlocking assembly.

Quick facts

• Entirely friction fit - no nails, screws or mechanical fasteners
• Composed of over 5,000 unique parts all fabricated on 2 CNC machines in 3 weeks
• 21 days for assembly by 3 people

Reviews and catalogue

• Brightcove
• Archpaper
• TED Blog
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