This paper documents our current progress on the parallel development of a building system and corresponding agent-based software design tools; together the two produce a seamless pipeline from design to fabrication and assembly. The building system is a clad differential space-truss designed for fabrication entirely with computer numerically controlled (CNC) linear cutting devices such as CNC laser cutters or two-axis mills. The software component is a set of agent-based design tools for developing surfaces and envelopes formally suitable to be built using our space-truss system.
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