Radlab is a multidisciplinary design and fabrication consulting firm located in Boston, MA.
The scope of our work includes architecture, design computing, digital fabrication, and product development.
These areas are viewed as uniquely distinguishable, and yet distinctly complementary.
At Radlab, opportunities for integrating and intersecting disciplines are always on the agenda.
Radlab views continual experimentation, part of its core mode of operation,
as a critical form of applied research. The cultivation of design
knowledge through trials and prototypes, creating and documenting a
continually expanding archive of shared experience, is part of our standard
practice. Through clearly defined intentions and methods, with ad
hoc rubrics for measuring and evaluating levels of success, research is
employed as a foundational tool for realizing ideas in physical form. It is
understood that although research, in these terms, by no means guarantees
any form of success, it plays a crucial role in reinforcing design
propositions, thereby maximizing the probability of success.
Within this framework of experimentation, the creation and discovery of
pertinent solutions are wrought through cyclical iterations, invariably
mixed with some success and some failure. These research and design
experiments (from which Radlab derives its name) occur at a range of
scales, within both digital and material contexts, and are rationalized
through the lens of a variety of project specific goals. It is our aim not to
let technology drive intention, but rather to allow the unfolding of process
occur in response to and in conjunction with research. Emperical
evidence, both predictable and entirely unforseeble, emerges through
the study of materials, joinery systems, spatial configurations, environmental
conditions and assembly logics, ready to take the helm.
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