Digital Fabrication » Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin

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Ruxandra — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:28:11 +0000

The milling exercise aimed to get a better understanding of the CNCmilling machine by fabricating and casting a floor tile. The process included designing the unit and its cast, setting up the parameters for the CNC and ultimately fabricate the tile.

In 1886 Jaume Escofet founded ESCOFET y FORTUNY, a pavement manufacturing company. Later it became Escofet y Tejero and in 1988 they won the Barcelona World Trade Fair Gold Medal.In 1906 they started producing modernist hydraulic tiles. The tiles manufactured by Escofet in conjunction with renowned architects like Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Alexandre de Riquer. The most outstanding example is Antoni Gaudí’s Hexagonal Tile for the Pedrera building interiors. An adaptation of this model was used 90 years later to pave Barcelona’s Paseo de Gracia.

Our design style is based on he typical tiles from Barcelona produced a century ago by the factories that rised in the industrial revolution.

The process started in Rhino, was developed with the help of Grasshopper, set up in RhinoCam and sent to the CNC milling machine. (milling time 2:07h)

After the cast mould was finished, it was treated with sealer and vaseline and concrete was poured in. After taking care that all the air bubbles are out, the concrete was left to dry for about 6 to 7 hours. After the cast was removed from the mould, it was polished and put in place.

——- Ruxandra // Carlos // Novak ——-

cube∞

Ruxandra — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:42:03 +0000

The goal of the 3d printing exercise was to create a dynamic assembly of plastic rods that will be connected with each other using a 3d printed component. The resulting structure should take advantage of the properties of the materials and use that to create movement and interaction.

To find the most versatile components we started looking into simple 3d shapes that could be altered to display an array of assembly possibilities, movement and interaction throughout the structure.

The cube fitted most efficiently within the bounding box assigned for the 3dprinter.

The cube has been hollowed to reduce usage of material and alterations to the shape have been made by perforating the component in 5 different directions with a precise diameter to fit the plastic rods.While experimenting with the possibilities, we created a ∞ shape that could be twisted and bent into different shapes and curvatures. The 3d printed component would allow movement along the curved length of the rod.The result, an ordered interactive chaos of infinity loops.

Rodolfo∞Ruxandra∞Shweta

2.0 to 4.6

Ruxandra — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:58:04 +0000

The laser cutting exercise was focused on designing a vertical structure generated by a system of different components with the use of 4 mm plywood boards (840×300 mm) and to obtain the highest structure possible.

The first experiments started trying to make use of a single repeating element that could generate a stable structure. While this approach was rich in stability and had the advantage of very little material waste, it had the disadvantage of not being able to reach impressive heights. Based on these results, a decision was made to design a structure based on two repeating elements, one joinery piece and one main vertical piece.

Trials using 1mm cardboard and 3 mm plywood sheets

The digital trials and final design (Rhino)

The goal was to create a simple elegantly flowing structure with the least material waste and the highest possible height. The main vertical piece suffered alterations in order to obtain the most stable curvature which would allow the structure to change diameters as its moving upwards.

The fabrication process on the Laser Multicamm 2000 – 1:50h -

The final result was a stable 4.6 m tall plywood structure

Details

Group 1 /Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin/ Wen Shan Foo/ Asif Rahman