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DIGITAL FABRICATION PRESENTATION – Laser Cutting

admin — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:33:48 +0000

Today during the digital fabrication class it has been presented the first assignment results.

This first step has been focused on the development of a system based on component proliferation using the cutting machine; the main requierement of the exercise was to reach a focal point of the two windows in one of the main rooms of IAAC, creating a virtual ceiling to generate a continuos surface in the space.

Students assembled all the cutted components and installed them in the hexagons given as a work area. 25 groups (of 3 students each) developed different proposals using polypropylene as base material, together with the plywood structure of the hexagon.

Tutors: Tomas Diez, Edouard Cabay
Assistant: Alexandre Dubor

Final Presentation of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise

admin — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:16:32 +0000

Today the MAA students presented the work of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise. The aim of this project was to explore 3 dimensional manufacturing processes by the use of the CNC milling machine, and the development of molds for casting pieces. The work has been focused in the design of a construction brick module, the fabrication of its mild, and the process of casting the parts to construct a three dimensional wall, which has generated a spatial installation in the IAAC building.

Hexagon-Group6

charusilawong.marisa@iaac.net — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:58:03 +0000

Group 13 _ Brick Milling Strategy

kayla.pongrac — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:04:33 +0000

Brick molding – milling strategy – group22

boleslaw.musierowicz@iaac.net — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:03:37 +0000

The milling strategy for brick mold is based on voronoi diagram. Its density is dependent on distance to multiple attractors. Two attractors for each side, were placed in such way, that the pattern emphasizes curvature of the brick.

Group 16-3d Printing

georgios.angelou@iaac.net — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:40:00 +0000

group 07 – FABRICATION CLASS 03.// 3D PRINTING

shivaranjani.kumbar@iaac.net — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:47:45 +0000

par·a·site [par-uh-sahyt]

An organism which lives in or on another organism (its host) and benets by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense.

Origin: mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek parasitos ‘(person) eating

at another’s table’, from para- ‘alongside’ + sitos ‘food’.

Our parasitic architecture can be dened as an adaptable, transient

and exploitive form of architecture that forces relationships with

host buildings in order to complete themselves.

Parasites cannot sustain their own existence without siphoning

energy and structure in this case from the surplus supply

demonstrated in host buildings.

niccolo marini, elif gungor, shivaranjani kumbar

Hexagon lasser cutter Group 20

dulceadriana.luna@iaac.net — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:57:02 +0000

Grow your brick on someone else’s brick

ALEJANDRA DIAZ DE LEON — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:34:15 +0000

Group 1_Bricks

gabriela.gonzalez@iaac.net — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:34:12 +0000

The assignment consists in developing milling techniques that would affect the molds for the brick, through “RhinoCAM” plug-in.

The group tried most of the tools and finally, developed the following strategies: 1. Horizontal roughing, for all. 2. Two parallel finishings, at the direction of 45 and 135 degrees. 3. Finally, parallel finishing for the plane parts of the molds.

The final molds have the texture of positive points, that after being casted, print themselves as voids, creating the texture of fabric.

Because of the group being the first one of the batch, the mold given by us, was the curviest.

Therefore, during the casting process, two bricks would come off broken of the molds.

After experimenting with gauze, which resulted evident in the final texture of one brick, the group discovered that what needed to be adjusted was the technique for taking the bricks out of the molds.

Group 1: Georgios Soutos, Miguel Landinez and Gabriela Gonzales Faria