From September 20th to 23rd the European Facade Network (efn) in cooperation with the Detmold
School of Architecture and Interior Architecture (HS OWL) and the TU Delft have hosted the workshop, Form Finding Fabrication‘ and the Symposium ‚Digital Methods‘ at the glasstec 2016 trade fair in Düsseldorf.

The workshop and symposium have been the semester kick-off for Detmold’s new master students
and have been led by Prof. Hans Sachs and Dipl.-Ing. David Lemberski. More than 80 students in the field of architecture (Master Integrated Architectural Design – MIAD) and interior architecture (Master Innenarchitektur-Raumkunst – MIAR) developed a huge variety of digital and physical prototype wall and roof structures in an interdisciplinary and interactive design and modeling process.

The focus of this experimental workshop has been on the interconnection of analogue and digital
modeling and fabrication techniques by using 3D printers, two CNC laser cutters, a CNC wirebender
and cutting plotters. Within this interdisciplinary setup our international and national ‚newcomer
students’ interconnected greatly at an early stage of their studies and immediately learned to use and integrate innovative modeling and prototyping techniques in the design development process.