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Smart Geometry Final Prototypes

Mar 29, 2010

Photos: 57

IaaC_ClosingEvent_Presentation_SlideShow

Mar 21, 2010

Photos: 143

C1_Curved folding: from Craft to Rapid Manufacture

This custer explores the opportunities that arise from iterative approach to form/function optimisation when working with curved folding. It takes advantage of rapid manufacture of large metal 3D forms offered by developable surfaces. The cluster will use a development process that transitions in and out of the digital realm – with the 3D scanner as input mechanism and vinyl cutter/laser cutter as output. GC will be used as the artifact interpretation and manufacturing preparation tool and building with GC tools for modelling curved folding. The end goal is to optimise designs for manufacture, followed by folding of metal sheets into the final form.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 83

C2_Deep Surfaces

With the aid of efficient solvers for force-active structures, the design of tensile membrane systems can move towards the creation of complex multi-layered, interconnected assemblies defining both localized volumetric conditions, and global multi-dimensional deep surfaces. In this cluster, it is intended to design and fabricate such intricate spatial assemblies through the use of force-simulation algorithms in Processing, and deduction of fabrication information in GC. To instrumentalize the use of tensioned fabrics in the making of complex forms, the flow of structural force will be closely examined. In Processing, the design of the overall form shall occur through the constant editing and re-calibration of tension-force characteristics. A structural computational mesh will then be translated into a series of stitched, pre-tensioned fabric patches.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 59

C3_Design To Destruction

In this workshop we plan to control/optimise a design through a recursive process of computational analysis, small-scale prototyping and physical testing. The aim is to integrate this analysis into the design process using testing as a validation of the design. Ultimately the goal is to test each final design to destruction at full scale. To concentrate the workshop our challenge is for all participants to make a CNC milled 1.2m timber cantilever, which will undergo a calibrated structural test; the ‘winner’ being the design with the lowest self-weight but highest loaded capacity. The wider aim of the workshop is to enter a dialogue about the practice of engineering alongside the process of design to get a feeling about truly how accurate engineering practice is and needs to be. Furthermore to question what makes good design in terms of form and function.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 160

C4_Explicit Bricks

In this workshop we intend to research the logic of a specific fabrication process combined with a constructive system as the main driver of architectural design. We will apply robotic processes that unlike common CNC machines not only allow the control of the machines movement, but the actual fabrication process itself. Rather than defining a specific geometry, the students in the workshop will generate their designs by programming specific material manipulations.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 266

C5_High Tech Design - Low Tech Construction

This cluster focuses on a process that combines the design of parametric models with rapid, manual construction techniques. This set is coupled with digital setting out strategies and results in a 1:1 prototype. The task is to devise a method of translating complex digital projects into real scale models, using logical geometric thinking, inventive production planning and self organization principles. The goal is to design and build a real scale, functional habitat. This structure will be of fast deployment defined by simple components and their precisely articulated relations. Components will be fabricated of standardized material. The design intelligence will go into the development of innovative connection types and assembly strategies. To achieve this, we will devise a translator craft using easily available technology, such as a conventional desktop printer, projectors and laser beams to articulate, scale and set the design in space.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 85

C6_Inflatable Fabric Envelopes

The goal of the workshop group is to explore the use of inflatable fabric envelopes using the dual membrane principle used in inflatable tube kites where tension resistant membrane and air tight bladders are separated allowing for lightweight, strong structures with a relatively high level of shape control and the ability to use standard sewing techniques for construction. Participants are encouraged to experiment with new uses for those techniques in the architectural and engineering context such as possibly inflatable molds or lightweight structures and build prototypes to test them by combining parametric and computational modeling techniques with digital fabrication and sewing. (No prior experience with sewing necessary)

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 170

C7_Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces

e design intention of this workshop is the exploration of new forms and materials of architectural surfaces used to modify acoustic space. The precise specification of a geometric structure together with an understanding of its material properties allows for the prediction of its acoustic performance. New potentials for the creation of architectural space and its perception emerge when the understanding of manufacturing technique and material properties are embedded in the underlying parametric model. Through the linking of acoustic theory, the parametric design of material and geometry, and the digital fabrication of these structures, true "working prototypes" will be created and evaluated. The group will focus on two acoustic behaviors: resonant absorption and sound scattering. Subgroups will study these through investigations of modulating surface geometry, perforated composites, and folded clusters.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 270

C8_Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design

This workshop situates itself at the nexus between architecture and systems biology to gain insight into dynamic living systems for the development of novel computational design tools and material systems that are at once natural and artificial. Generative design techniques emerge with references to natural systems, not as mimicry but as trans-disciplinary translation of flexibility, adaptation and complexity into realms of architectural manifestation. Systems Biology is a new field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thereby using a new perspective (integration instead of reduction) to study them. This approach examines the nature of nonlinearities, emergent properties and loosely coupled modules that are cardinal features of 'complexity’. Design tools found useful in analyzing nonlinear biological systems provide new models for addressing contextual topics such as performance and change in architecture.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 415

C9_Parametrics and physical interactions

This cluster is enabling and encouraging the use of physical/tangible interfaces, sensor devices, and their integration in the design process. As parametric relationships between the virtual and physical reality are bridged and can be simulated, situational variations of parameters that exist in the physical realm can be reflected in the virtual parametric model. For example, parametric models can adapt to external circumstances (e.g. air movement, solar radiation, surrounding objects, spatial conditions, and user interaction patterns etc) and generate real-time feedback through the connected physical devices. In this way architectural models can be created, simulated, and directly informed by this interaction. Special set of libraries, plug-ins and features for interaction with GC will be created before the workshop. During the workshop these will be used to create installations.

Mar 15, 2010

Photos: 217

C10_Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly - snap fit, push on....

The prevalence of digital fabrication technology gives rise to new methods for connecting one element to another. Historically building assemblies have been lead by the available technology from post and peg systems of green oak framing to mass manufactured fixings such as nail plates, bolts and screws of the past 100 or so years. If we take a look at other manufactured goods such as cars or phones there are countless snap on elements that make the assembly quicker and ultimately cheaper – can the same be true of buildings? The new technology effectively allows us to get rid of intermediate connectors (screws bolts nailplates) by integrating them into the part to be fixed much in the way plastic products use snap fixings and integral hinges.