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Fabrication process

This work is a collaboration between Ayber Gülfer and Jordi Portell and describes the fabrication process for the Lego-like-brick exercise in the Digital Fabrication Tools class. The nurbs modell was converted to a mesh and exported as *.stl in order to send it to the fabrication laboratory. We rendered the modell with Blender 2.54 to [...]

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A beehive as a case study for additive digital fabrication?

Bees One can see bees as perfect, small machines fabricating with high precision wax honeycombs to protect their larvae and store honey and pollen. They are ‘programmed’ to reproduce in an endless series a very optimised structure of hexagonal cells with very thin walls. This construction is fabricated by bees producing their own construction material [...]

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Case Studies: Prada Epicenter

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 [...]

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Case studies: Cité du Design Saint Étienne

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 [...]

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