The tile aims to redevelop the traditional architectural language of classical friezes into a formulation of contemporary fabrication processes. The classically crafted practice of the frieze involves the linear arrangement of stone-engraved tiles that depict a collective narrative or story. 

A contemporary representation of the traditional frieze can be realized by developing a tile that explores how its surface conditions can be textured and encrypted. By utilizing computational fabrication practices, the tile module can elaborate on the evolution of the tradition of architectural narrative through unitized ornamentation. Computational development of both the module’s surface form and textured encryptions examines how the ideology of the frieze is illustrated and communicated through layers of algorithmic abstraction. The digital fabrication tools and processes available to architects today ask how traditional architectural ornamentation can be conceived and transmitted through the production of these tile modules.