3D Printing
On a recent project here at GO Logic we utilized 3D printing technology to create client models. The results were exciting. 
A criticism of current architectural practice and its increased movement towards digital media is the loss of physicality; the entrapment of design by our computer screens. (“Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing”, NY Times). 3D printing brings the ability for integration that is inherent in BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology to the physical plane, allowing you to quickly and easily move the project off the computer screen and onto your desk. Increased proliferation of 3D printing technology will only further the ability of architects and other designers to experience a physical manifestation of their work in each step of the process, guaranteeing the desired aesthetic and functional relationships before the project or object in question goes into production. Whether 3D printing will have the wide spread effects on our daily lives that its champions predict is yet to be seen; but 3D printing is fast becoming a tool of technology savvy designers and will certainly change our relationship with designing, prototyping, and building. -Dimitri is a designer and draftsman at GO Logic and has a background in digital fabrication.
