The irreversible imprint of humankind on earth calls for revisiting current construction practices. This paper forwards a vision for post-Anthropocene, large-scale, architectural and landscape construction. This vision relates to the way natural terrains can be transformed into architecture using robotic tools, and the way advanced in situ digital fabrication can enable attainment of greater sustainability through increased sensibility. Despite advancements in large scale digital fabrication in architecture, the field still mainly focuses on the production of objects. The proposed vision aims to advance theory and practice toward territorial scale digital fabrication enabling the production of environments. Three notions are proposed: large-scale customization, material-aware construction, and integrated fabrication. These three aspects are demonstrated through research and teaching projects demonstrating ways for robotic tools and advanced sensing to be applied toward reforming, stabilizing, and reconstituting natural sand. Together, they propose a theoretical ground for large-scale, in situ digital fabrication for a new era, relinking architecture to the terrains upon which it is formed.
