Play with Parts and Joints-Digital Design supported by Rapid Prototyping

Digital architectures are emerging because of the advancement of information and communication technologies. Rapid prototyping becomes important for digital design in the early conception stage because of the complexity of geometrical relations. The paper is aimed to examine the design teaching issues of dynamic structure by rapid prototyping in experimental studies. Our goal is to integrate the process with rapid prototyping in generating variety types of joints adapting different conditions. This study proposes the digital design process by “playing with parts and jointsi approach for the educational purposes. By introducing in design studios, the findings and discussion are reported.