In this year the studio of digital tectonics will be focus on the exploration the technique on the material deposit. The additive fabrication is about add material with a device can reproduce digital shapes can not be make with humans hands.
The digital fabrications tools and the technologies have the main challenge to translate the computers (informations bits) ideas at analog space (material atoms), but it is open news door can be rethink the old idea to manufacturing.
Some projects and research.
http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/01/11/ten-excellent-examples-of-cnc-routing/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFyuxGEhzY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXtkIpiotI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Cg9R4WOZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YDkbltzMmA&feature=related