The aim : of the exercise is for students to get familiar with the first of three digital fabrication tools that will be explored during the course: the laser cutter. By the end of the course, every student should be familiar with modeling digitally, inventing strategies to translate a geometry into an articulated constructible solution, producing the cad file to be used for machining, fabricating the pieces and assembling them into a finished object. The main particularity of the laser cutter as a fabrication technology is that it is exclusively used on sheet materials. Apart from the skills and tasks mentioned above, the student will have to work inventively and creatively to imagine and produce a three dimensional object that exploits some of the properties of the material. For example, paper is a material that can be folded or bent to achieve three-dimensionality. To reach these assembled objects, the student will have to work out manners in which to join, to attach, to connect the various pieces of their object (or the one and only piece). To emphasis this aspect, students have to design their assembly strategies without the use of neither glue nor nails, and preferably without mechanical connections such as screws. The outcome of the exercise consists of a lamp. Every group will present, at the end of the exercise, a fabricated piece. It is important to understand that the aim of the course is what was identified in the previous paragraph and is not an exercise into lamp design. Students
should therefore not start the project by emphasizing on the design of the lamp, but rather on understanding the potential of the material, technique and joinery possibilities. The lamp should be a well fabricated piece which stands on it s own, ready to be sold in the best design shops of Barcelona!
Students results:
Photos credit: Mara Sylvester
Material : Paper
1. Group 20 : Noor Alain Ahmed, Nasim Sehat,Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo
2. Group 2 : Akhil Kapadia, Angel Fernando Lara Moreira, Jinglu Zhu
3. Group 13 : Gonzalo Manuel Garriga, Seif El-Din Shawky, Inder Prakash Shergill
4. Group 7 : Pavel Aguilar Urquidez, Sasa Jokic, Chun-Yu lin
5. Group 1 : Nasim Fashami, Diana Raquel León Roman, Alejandro Nuñez López
6. Group 8: Hulda Jonsdottir, Emily Santos, Minu Surana
Material : Plexiglass
1. Group 12 : Maria Elena Amescua Dacasa, Raja Vingesh Murugan Chitra, Christina Vlanti
2. Group 18: Jose Starsky Naya Lara, Ya Ping Chen, Jayanthimala Gokulrajkaisah Thangarajan, Hunia Tomoum
3. Group 6 : Mehran Haghbinghomi, Ranjini Manimudi, Farshad Mehdizadeh
4. Group 5: Akram Ahmed Salah, Pavlos Bakagiannis, Aron Biro
5. Group 23 : Nicolas Fueyo, Lok Man Lee, Jianhong Wu
6. Group 11: Alessandra antonetti, Golrokh Shahbaz, Swethambari Sridharan
Material: wood
1. Group 10: Avershima Iyortyer, Maria Ponz Dacuña, Liv Grete Stromme Framgard
2. Group 16: Kholoud Alhamdan, Devyani Gupta, Arian Hakimi Nejad
3. Group 15: Einar Hlér Einarsson, Marilena Georgantzi, Deniz Tümerdem
4. Group 3: Seyedahmad Bathaei, Vicente Gasco Gomez, Jesus Efrain Sapien Soto
5. Group: 21 Oscar Gomez de la Vega, Guruprakash Govindasamy, Mohsen Marizad
6. Group 9: Alexandre Dubor, Theodoros Grousopoulos, Anna Kulik