Fabrication | Online Workshop | English | North-South Americas
Description:
Based on the notion of the intelligence embedded in tools and materials, this workshop will introduce nesting fabrication in architectural applications. In particular, the workshop will help participants to expand their tectonic proficiencies in developing the design principles for 2.5D nested robotic 3D printing. Emerging from the constraints of existing paste-extrusion printers, the participants will explore the main parameters involved in dividing the global geometry of a complex volume into stackable components when congruent surfaces are attained between them. By converting different formal, material, and technical restrictions into geometric constraints, the stacked components are divided in a way that the first component gives shape to the second.
The workshop is broken into two days starting with an introduction to related material, processes, and current state of the art in robotic 3D printing processes. Following this contextualization, the workshop will discuss the process and material parameters for use during the robotic deposition of clay-based materials including a demonstration of digital and physical workflows for robotic clay printing. The workshop attendees engage in a design exercise that links computational design to robotic deposition processes which will be simulated in a virtual robotic fabrication environment. The participants will explore the possibility of nesting a tower-like structure to design an engineered biome named cityTREE while using the principles of 2.5D nesting in robotic clay printing.
Key Words:
Robotic Fabrication,Nesting Fabrication,Clay 3D printing ,PRINT in PRINT
Required Skills:
Rhino (intermediate), Grasshopper (Intermediate)
Required Software:
Rhino, Grasshopper, Hal for Grasshopper
Required Hardware:
Laptop with Windows operation system
Maximum number of participating students:
12
The workshop is broken into two days starting with an introduction to related material, processes, and current state of the art in robotic 3D printing processes. Following this contextualization, the workshop will discuss the process and material parameters for use during the robotic deposition of clay-based materials including a demonstration of digital and physical workflows for robotic clay printing. The workshop attendees engage in a design exercise that links computational design to robotic deposition processes which will be simulated in a virtual robotic fabrication environment. The participants will explore the possibility of nesting a tower-like structure to design an engineered biome named cityTREE while using the principles of 2.5D nesting in robotic clay printing.
Schedule:
Jun 26 - Jun 27
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Day 1 / Jun 26
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Day 2 / Jun 27
Instructors:
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Negar Kalantar California College of the Arts,Associate Professor and Co-director of Digital Craft LabDr. Negar Kalantar is an associate professor of Architecture and a Co-Director of the Digital Craft Lab at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Her cross-disciplinary research focuses on materials exploration, robotic and additive manufacturing technologies, and engaging architecture, science, and engineering as platforms for examining the critical role of design in global issues and built environments. Kalantar is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the Dornfeld Manufacturing Vision Award 2018, the National Science Foundation, Autodesk Technology Center Grant, and X-Grant 2018 from the Texas A&M President’s Excellence Fund on developing sustainable material for 3-D printed buildings. Some of the outcomes of her work have been featured in the Guardian, on the BBC, in science-focused magazines, and by the National Science Foundation. Her research has been presented at the Technical University of Vienna and Berlin, ETH Zurich, University of Maryland, Tehran University, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M University, and New York 3D Print Show. She has organized national and international workshops on additive manufacturing, robotics, and materials advancement in digital fabrication and architecture. -
Al Borhani California College of the Arts,FacultyAlireza Borhani is an innovator, architect, educator, and co-Principal of the transLAB. His interdisciplinary experience has allowed him to expand his career into a broad scale and type of projects at the intersection of design computation, emerging material systems, additive manufacturing workflows, and robotics. At the forefront of kinematic structures, ranging from architectural-scale shelters to small products, Borhani has been immersed in the world of transformable and adaptive design for the past twenty years. At the California College of the Arts, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech, Alireza has taught architecture studio, concurrent with research and practice, for over a decade. -
Mehdi Farahbakhsh Texas A&M,Research Assistant, PhD CandidateMehdi Farahbakhsh is currently a Ph.D. candidate and a lecturer in the College of Architecture, and a researcher at the Center for Infrastructure Renewal at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the robotic-assisted fabrication of scaffold-free shell structures, human-robot collaboration, and digital fabrication technologies. Mehdi holds a master’s degree in Architecture and worked as an architect for eight years and designed more than 1.5 million square feet of architectural spaces.