Tag Archives: digital fabrication

Lotus

In the design process we aimed to experiment with different types of assembly. Each rode finishes with a sphere which arrives to a central assembly point.

Posted in Agnieszka Wanda Janusz, Hristo Kovachev, Joshua Ranjit Pio John | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Hyperblob

Derived from a hyperboloid of 1 sheet, the Hyperblob is a free standing structure made up of 25 2mm fiberglass rods, 33mm long, through two 3D printed rings, 150 mm in diameter. Hyperboloids can be found in architecture and are based on the concept of a ruled surface: through every point on the surface lies [...]

Posted in Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Giacomo Fiorani, Luca Gamberini | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

H.I.H

 Hand In Hand, Tower “The process began with a Spiral as our inspiration. We wanted to explore the potential of the material to its maximum threshold; hence the Spiral was the best fit for our endeavor.

Posted in Chung Kai Hsieh, Juhi Pravin Patel, Raphael Teixeira Libonati  | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Turning Torso

The design of our tower was driven by several criteria: || maximization of material usage || repetition of a single member || achieving of several possible configurations As a result of a successful implementation of the first and the second criteria, we were able to make use of 97% of the available material, consequently reaching [...]

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Bloom

The exercise was to design a vertical structure consisting of different kinds of connections with wood material. Our goal was to use the necessary number of vertical joints that accentuate the curvy figure of our structure… and of course, aim higher!

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