more on the tectonic operation/language

It is important that you develop your concept around a design system.
In one of the references i gave for the project, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques , Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming, and for each method, different examples:

Sectioning:
Digital Weave, University of California, Berkeley / Lisa Iwamoto
Mafoombey, Martti Kalliala, Esa Ruskeepää, with Martin Lukasczyk
(Ply) Wood Delaminations, Georgia Institute of Technology / Monica Ponce de Leon
A Change of State, Georgia Institute of Technology / Nader Tehrani
[c] space, Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
BURST*.003, SYSTEMarchitects

Tessellating:
West Coast Pavilion, Atelier Manferdini
Huyghe + Le Corbusier Puppet Theatre, MOS
Helios House, Office dA and Johnston Marklee & Associates
California: Stage Set for John Jasperse, AEDS / Ammar Eloueini
Airspace Tokyo, Thom Faulders Architecture
Technicolor Bloom, Brennan Buck

Folding:
Dragonfly, Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT
Nubik, AEDS / Ammar Eloueini
In-Out Curtain, IwamotoScott
Entry Paradise Pavilion, Chris Bosse / PTW Architects
Aoba-tei, Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Digital Origami, University of Technology, Sydney / Chris Bosse
C_Wall, Andrew Kudless / Matsys
Manifold, Andrew Kudless / Matsys

Contouring:
Bone Wall, Urban A&O
Design 306, Erwin Hauer and Enrique Rosado
CNC panels, Jeremy Ficca
Door with Peephole, WILLIAMSONWILLIAMSON
Gradient Scale, SPAN
Tool-Hide, Ruy Klein

Forming:
Alice, Florencia Pita mod
Prototype Pavilion, MOS
UniBodies, PATTERNS, with Kreysler & Associates
NGTV, GNUFORM
“Dark Places”, servo
“Housing in Vienna”, SPAN
Satin Sheet, University of California, Los Angeles /Heather Roberge
Shiatsu, University of California, Los Angeles / Heather Roberge
P_Wall, Andrew Kudless / Matsys

In another reference for systematic design, Informal, by Cecil Balmond; the systems derive from structural enquiries in form.

Two other references, Frei Otto. Form Finding: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal and OMA. SMLXL show also good systemic thinking.