IAAC MAA 2010: Digital Fabrication Class – BLOG
Our initial idea was to create a form with “minimum structural elements”. We thought it was something interesting but that it didn’t explore at all the potentiality of the 3d printer additive process. WeaverBird has come to be our new best friend. Antonio Atripaldi and Ohad
This Collapsing Volume lamp designed by Studio Dror is built in a similar way, though the process is additive rather than subtractive and it does something you can only do with rapid prototyping: The manufacturer, Materialise.MGX, starts off with a pile of powdered nylon, and then a CNC laser selectively sinters (SLS) parts of the nylon into solid links [...]
A series of disused buildings from Mumbai’s colonial past set within the Mumbai Race Course are to be converted to form a series of restaurant and bars. The conservation guidelines call for the preservation of the roof profile for three-quarters of the buildings and full conservation for the remaining one-quarter. The interesting aspect of the [...]
PTW ARCHITECTS – ARUP – CSCEC – CCDI WATER CUBE The Aquatics Center hosted the swimming, diving and Synchronized Swimming events during the Olympics. The Water Cube was specially designed and built by a consortium made up of PTW Architects (an Australian architecture firm), Arup international engineering group, CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation), and [...]
The project was inspired by two iconic buildings tods building in Omotesando Tokyo and the bird’s nest in Beijing, designed by two innovative architects: Toyo Ito and Herzog & De Meuron . The difference is that tods was conceived with the idea of a free façade that is not structurally [...]
Gerry Judah for Audi Goodwood Festival of Speed Sculpture For the yearly event known as the Goodwood Festival of Speed held at the Goodwood estate, the Earl of March commissions a large scale piece of art to commerate the event. This season is no exception as the festival celebrates Audi’s 100th anniversary with this massive [...]
Memorial for Tree of Knowledge by m3architecture and Brian Hooper Australian architects m3architecture and Brian Hooper Architect have completed a memorial to a tree in Queensland, Australia. Called Memorial for Tree of Knowledge, the project marks the site where the Australian Labour party is said to have been founded in 1891. The remaining parts of [...]
The “Birds Nest” by Herzog & de Meuron is a great example of a skin like structure that became a reality with the help of computer aided programs as well as human ingenuity. The concept was based off the studies of Chinese ceramics and was first implemented in the design as ” two independent structures, [...]
IAAC MA 2010-2011// DIGITAL TOOLS AND FABRICATION OCTOBER 2010 Attended by MARTIN FIRERA, MA. LAURA MOLINA Intended as an introduction to the advanced digital and fabrication processes, this class is centered on the design and construction of a full scale prototype in a variety of materials. Additive Processes (Digital Fabrication) As additive processes We might [...]
Turbulence House, Steven Holl Architects Turbulence House’s sculptural form is created by many different metallic elements that Zahner Company Architectural Metals produced using Holl’s digital designs and cnc technology. It is an eco-friendly designed house which uses photovoltaic systems and its shape takes advantage of the wind for its ventilation. Source: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=53&page=0 Source: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=53&page=0