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The evolution of a digital shape, described as a NURBS surface, into a discrete model and its further development into a built structure made out of many components with material-immanent characteristics, poses new challenges for architects, structural engineers and building firms. A close interdisciplinary collaboration, sometimes even with mathematicians and computer scientists, an exact understanding of the parties involved in the project and a consistent parametric data model are therefore the key to a successful project.

This has been enabled by the developments of digital modeling software and fabrication techniques. Computers have helped to push the boundaries that define which architectural forms can be realized. Because of new complex shapes which can be generated, and due to the development of new tools, which can rationalize and refine the complex geometries into easier buildable and more cost beneficial solutions. This enables the client to afford freeform architecture, which in the past would have been vastly more expensive.