Digital Design in Building

Designers can now create custom complex shapes by using digital tools, instead of relying on "cookie cutter" components. This short documentary explains how and highlights applications in architecture and high-performance built environments.

Interviewees:
⊳ Kimo Griggs, Yale School of Architecture, co-author of "Digital Design and Manufacturing: CAD/CAM Applications in Architecture and Design"
⊳ Tim Eliassen, co-founder of TriPyramid Structures, hardware designer for large-scale glass structures in spaces ranging from the Louvre pyramids to Apple's flagship stores

2007

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.