IAAC MAA 2010: Digital Fabrication Class – BLOG
This project was conceived to adapt in an organic way to the surrounding environment. It was designed to harmonize with the existing vegetation, the commercial axe and finally with the local school building. The lightness of the building’s skin allows it to breathe the day and to exhale by night.
Display table demonstrating the tools and outcomes of rapid manufacturing and rapid prototyping with concret
Earthscrapers is an installation for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas that imagines the potential of employing CAD and CAM processes in the construction of a proto-architectural landscape—one where the building material source and the building itself are seamless. It also demonstrates the internal design, research and experimentation process by Rael San Fratello Architects in hacking a 3D printer to rapid prototype and rapid manufacture clays, ceramics and ultimately cement. Mining, desertification, dredging and erosion are a few of the many examples of natural and anthropogenic processes for shaping the landscape and have become the theoretical material sources, sites and contexts for the forms and spaces created. The project also imagines a future scenario for the material and the process as a scalable technology—one that also dissolves the role of the architect and builder—where designer and geomorphologist merge.
A rapid manufactured concrete tower maquette:
Linear and vertical modularity using rapid manufactured concrete
3D printed concrete form
Nervou System [http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com] is a design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. They create using a process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, they write computer programs mimicking processes and patterns found in nature.
2-Layer Center Ring
Cell Cycle
A collection of jewlery combining the strategy of the radiolarian with that of a catenary surface that makes strong, yet visually delicate volumes with minimal material use. They’ve created an interactive software were buyers can personalize their piece. The bracelets are composed of a bilayer structure that juxtaposes two patterns on top of one another. The final designs are built up layer by layer in durable nylon plastic using Selective Laser Sintering.
“Computational design, for us, means creating computer programs as part of the design process. This goes beyond using computer programs as a tool. It is computation as a medium. It isn’t just automating something you could do by hand, like drawing a thousand lines, but doing things that really only make sense by writing software. It is new, and we’re still trying to understand it but computation is a medium for making things. Programming is a very explicit process. Nothing happens without you telling the computer to do exactly that thing. In some ways, it is the most verbose and articulate creative process there is.”
a brief except from the introduction Jesse wrote for the Easton Pribble Visiting Artist lecture at Pratt MWP, posted on September 27th, 2010.
Wave bracelet
Wave bracelet
The Prada Epicenter was designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog + de Meuron Architects in the Aoyama district, Tokyo (Japan). It was completed in 2003, and it is serves as a retail building for the Prada brand and its products. The building located in a corner has a small entrance ‘plaza’, and it is conformed by display shelves, fitting rooms, elevators, and staircases.
The lattice structural system conformed by diamond- shaped steel and interesting concave and convex glass gives to the building a particular transparency. The building itself, which is an eccentric 6-story glass crystal, is considered as a huge display cabinet where everything can be seen from the exterior. During the day, it sometimes reflects the sky.
Study cases #1 By Herto Bayu Apriano I Published: October 21st 2010
The Mobile performance venue (MPV) is one of the temporary venue has designed to accommodate the live performance and the art exhibition activities. It designed by Various Architect that located in Oslo.
The Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) aims to represent Arts Alliance Productions and their performance “ID – Identity of the Soul” worldwide in 2009.
The venue form is consists of inflatable outer walls surrounding a central aluminum stage-structure.
It planned to be set up in many different areas around the world. Therefore the venue has designed with utilizing the lightweight material such as self-supporting PVC skin of hexagonal inflated tubes and cushions in order to be able transported in standard shipping containers with quick erection time and set-up onsite.
The Leaf chapel, designed by klein dytham Architecture is formed by 2 leaves – one glass, one steel – which have seemingly fluttered to the ground. The glass leaf with its delicate lace pattern motif emulates a pergola and the structure holding it up reminds one of the veins of a leaf which slowly become thinner the further they get from the central stem.
This particular international exhibition center was built to replace an old munitions factory in Saint Étienne, France, and it opened its doors to the public on October of last year (2009). The building designed by Finn Geipel and Giulia Andi of LIN Architects (Berlin and Paris) is conformed by auditoriums, meeting rooms, indoor gardens, exhibition space, a media library, and an observation tower located alongside the long hall.
The building’s skin, which is a latticed structure, forms the walls and roof of the complex. The steel space truss is reminiscent of the industrial architecture of factories, and spans the entire space -no columns are required. The skin, through its multiple triangles, is composed in a mechanical way that helps to control light, temperature, and airflow according to the different climatic conditions during the year. Actually, some of these triangles are photovoltaic cells that generate green power to the building and others, and also it open and closes depending of indoor comfort.
hollow’ is an organic pavilion that changes the conditions for social interaction and behavior. simply built, using compression to hold the structure together, the concept is designed by visiondivision (ulf mejergren and anders berensson) as their competition entry for sukkah city, where designers / architects were asked to design a modern sukkah – a temporary hut created for an annual jewish harvest festival – in union square, new york city.
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