scholarly journals Painterly Assemblies: Making Through Scavenging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faysal Tabbarah ◽  
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Ibrahim Ibrahim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
Design Production ◽  
Frame Systems ◽  
Material Computation ◽  
Late Renaissance ◽  
Radical Shift

This paper presents an ongoing body of work that aims to disrupt prevailing Modernist tendencies within computational design practices and digital design methodologies as well as present an alternative for archaic and highly standardized modes of sustainable design production through describing the development of a painterly attitude towards digital and material computation and its resultant workflow. This ongoing body of work looks at the radical shift from the linear in late Renaissance to the painterly in the Baroque and its potential within the context of contemporary computational design methodologies and digital fabrication. The paper presents a workflow that includes scavenging for natural material, 3D scanning, along with digital and material assembly in the form of reciprocal frame systems.

Reciprocal Frame Optimisation for Laser-Tube Technology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierpaolo Ruttico ◽  
Pasquale Lorusso ◽  
Stefano Arrighi
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design System ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Laser Tube ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Algorithmic Design

The research project presented in this paper investigates the architectonic and constructive potential of computational design and digital fabrication in steel construction. The original contribution of this project is the development of a digital design system that solves reciprocal interlinked structures through algorithmic design and iterative processes. The system is implemented with parametric definitions that optimize the mass-customization process for laser tube technology. In order to validate the assumptions, a mock-up has been realized out of stainless steel elements. The tubes are cut by a laser-tube robotic system, then manually assembled.

scholarly journals Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Mariapaola Riggio ◽  
Nancy Yen-wen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
Design Skills

Examining an interdisciplinary university course for architecture, wood science, and engineering students, this paper studies how the students’ ability to master digital workflows influenced their success in learning collaborative design skills. It highlights potential challenges and opportunities posed by the introduction of new digital tools to support emerging integrated building design in both education and professional practice. The particular course focuses on the wood industry, which is rapidly changing from a very traditional to a highly innovative sector and increasingly embracing the latest technological developments in computational design, simulation, and digital fabrication. This study explores the influence of parametric design on collaboration dynamics and workflow within an interdisciplinary group of students embodying the roles of manufacturer, engineer, and architect. Student-generated data of the first three years of the class is analyzed thematically to find correlations with productive collaborations. Focusing on a stage of an evolving teaching and learning process, this analysis allows identifications of common themes and patterns, suggesting implications for practice and future research. The course highlights the need to integrate data interoperability, collaboration skill-building, and material awareness in contemporary digitally enabled architecture, engineering, and construction education. The lessons learned in this course can be of value to academic programs and professional firms involved in incorporating digital design and interdisciplinary collaboration.

scholarly journals Cities as biological computers

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Pasquero ◽  
Marco Poletto
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Material Computation ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In this paper the authors propose a conceptual model and a bio-computational design method to articulate the world's Urbansphere, suggesting new terms for its co-evolution with the Biosphere.The proposed model responds to principles of biological self-organisation, and operates by embedding a numerical/computational engine, a living Physarum polycephalum, onto a spatial/morphogenetic substratum, a Satellite driven informational territory. This integration is embodied in the Physarum Machine, a bio-digital design apparatus conceived by the authors and further developed within the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the UCL in London.The use of specifically designed apparatus of material computation to demonstrate and solve problems of urban morphogenesis is not new and the authors refer to the work of German Architect Frei Otto and his theory for the occupation and connection of territories.This research leads to a notion of bio-city of the future where manmade infrastructures and non-human biological systems will constitute parts of a single biotechnological whole. To this respect it can be read as a manifesto for the extension of biotechnology to the scale of the Biosphere (biosphere geo-engineering) by expanding the scope and material articulation of global informational and energetic infrastructures (the internet of things and the internet of energy).In the tradition of design based research, the paper also suggests an application of the proposed model to a specific case study demonstrating its efficacy in the re-conceptualization of the post-industrial and ecologically depleted landscapes of eastern Arizona. In conclusion the experiment describes the potential of augmenting materiality through sensors and microprocessors so that it would become possible to harvest the computational power latent in micro-organisms like the slime mould.The dream outlined here is for an era where descriptive computation will be superseded by our capability to simulate and compute through the world that surrounds us.

BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 095605992110338
Author(s):  
Saeid Haghir ◽  
Ramtin Haghnazar ◽  
Sara Saghafi Moghaddam ◽  
Danial Keramat ◽  
Mohammad Reza Matini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Freeform Surfaces ◽  
Geometric Problem ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Lattice Space

Complex freeform surfaces and structures are increasingly designed and used in the product and building industry due to the advances in mathematics and digital design tools. However, there is still a gap between designing freeform surfaces and fabricating them. The process of preparing freeform surfaces’ shop drawings is complicated, time-consuming, and lacks the mutual understanding among the stakeholders. Computational design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) can serve as a mediator agent for the integration of design goals with the geometric logic of constructability. They can also facilitate creating platforms for designing and evaluating freeform structures. This open-ended qualitative research attempts to develop a systematic methodology for automating the design and construction drafting process of freeform lattice space structure. Solving this complex geometric problem aims to benefit the design for construction and manufacturers and shrink the cost and time of the process. The study employs a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) tool and introduces an algorithm that generates a BIM model. The BIM model contains shop drawings and suggests the specifications of the main elements, such as beams, glass panels, and nodes.

scholarly journals Adaptive Strategies for Mud Shell Robotic Fabrication

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Chaltiel Stephanie ◽  
Bravo Maite ◽  
Ibrahim Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Spray Deposition ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Robotic Fabrication ◽  
Material Deposition ◽  
Physical Tests ◽  
Full Scale Tests

The digital fabrication of monolithic shell structures is presenting some challenges related to the interface between computational design, materialist, and fabrication techniques. This research proposes a singular method for the sequential robotic spray deposition in layers of diverse clay mixes over a temporary fabric form-work pulled in between peripheral and cross section arches. This process relies mainly on the continuity of the construction phases for stability and durability but has encountered some challenges in physical tests related to sagging, displacement, and deformations during the robotic deposition of the material. Adaptive strategies during the digital fabrication stages are proposed for a sequential exploration of the geometry, structural analysis, and construction techniques. Alternative adjustments of protocols for the robotic material deposition include both predictable and unsuspected behaviors preventing the structure to reach non-viable geometric thresholds. Two case studies of physical tests describe, analyze, and simulate some of these strategies and identify specific parameters inquiring the sequential adjustments of the robotic material deposition. These strategies will drive future full-scale tests within a sustainable use of materials and adaptive construction methods, seeking an optimized structural performance that could open a new chapter for the digital fabrication of earthen shells.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Digital: An Architecture of Parts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollie Claypool ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The Way

The paper ascribes to a belief that architecture should be wholly digital – from the scale of the micron and particle to the brick, beam and building, from design to fabrication or construction. This embodies a fundamental and disruptive shift in architecture and design thinking that is unique to the project images included, enabling design to become more inclusive, participatory and open-source. Architecture that is wholly digital requires a radical rethinking of existing design and building practices. Thes projects described in this paper each develops a set of parts in relationship to a specific digital fabrication technology. These parts are defined as open-ended, universal and versatile building blocks, with a digital logic of connectivity. Each physical part has a malefemale connection which is the equivalent of the 0 and 1 in digital data. The design possibilities – or the way that parts can combine and aggregate – can be defined by the geometry and therefore, design agency, of the piece itself. This discrete method advances a theoretical argument about the nature of digital design as needing to be fundamentally discrete, and at the same time responding to ideas coming from open-source, distributed modes methods of production. Furthermore it responds to today’s housing crisis, providing for a more democratic and equitable framework for the production of housing. To think of architecture as wholly digital is to substantially disrupt the way that we think about design, authorship, ownership and process, as well as the building technologies and practices we use in contemporary architectural production.

scholarly journals Digital Design Ecology to Generate a Speculative Virtual Environment Reimagining New Relativity Laws

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Rogers ◽  
Marc Aurel Schnabel ◽  
Tane Moleta
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Built Form ◽  
High Level ◽  
Physical Laws

This paper presents the trilogy of virtual classifications, the speculative environment, the virtual inhabitant and the virtual built-form. These combine, generating a new realm of design within immersive architectural space, all to be designed relative to each other, this paper focuses on the speculative environment portion. This challenged computational design and representation through atmospheric filters, visible environment boundaries, materiality and audio experience. The speculative environment was generated manipulating the physical laws of the physical world, applied within the virtual space. The outcome provided a new spatial experience of architectural dynamics enhanced by detailed spatial qualities. Design concepts within this paper suggest at what immersive virtual reality can evolve into. Following an interconnective design methodology framework allowed a high level of complexity and richness to shine through the research case study throughout the process and final dissemination stages.

scholarly journals Digital Design Ecology to Generate a Speculative Virtual Environment Reimagining New Relativity Laws

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Rogers ◽  
Marc Aurel Schnabel ◽  
Tane Moleta
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Built Form ◽  
High Level ◽  
Physical Laws

This paper presents the trilogy of virtual classifications, the speculative environment, the virtual inhabitant and the virtual built-form. These combine, generating a new realm of design within immersive architectural space, all to be designed relative to each other, this paper focuses on the speculative environment portion. This challenged computational design and representation through atmospheric filters, visible environment boundaries, materiality and audio experience. The speculative environment was generated manipulating the physical laws of the physical world, applied within the virtual space. The outcome provided a new spatial experience of architectural dynamics enhanced by detailed spatial qualities. Design concepts within this paper suggest at what immersive virtual reality can evolve into. Following an interconnective design methodology framework allowed a high level of complexity and richness to shine through the research case study throughout the process and final dissemination stages.

scholarly journals Finding the Key: Designing Timber Connections for CLT Panels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Gabriella Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Timber Construction ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Connection System ◽  
Digital Modelling ◽  
Thermal Bridging ◽  
Timber Connections ◽  
Mass Timber

<p>In a climate where standard methods of construction are being challenged, developments in engineered timbers are allowing mass timber construction to be explored as a sustainable alternative to traditional building methods. Cross- laminated timber (CLT) is at the forefront of this evolution and, with the advancement in computational design and digital fabrication tools, there lies an opportunity to redefine standard construction. This project explores how digital modelling and advance digital fabrication can be combined to generate a connection system for CLT panels.  The advantages of CLT and mass timber construction are numerous and range from environmental and aesthetic benefits to site safety and cost reduction benefits. There are, however, issues that remain surrounding the connections between CLT panels. Steurer (2006, p.136) stated that, “Progress in engineered timber construction is directly related to developments in connector technology.” This thesis creates connections inspired by traditional Japanese joinery that have been adapted to be used for the panel construction of CLT structures. Using CLT offcuts as a primary connection material, the system not only reduces waste but also mitigates thermal bridging and lowers the number of connection points whilst increasing the ease of building and fabrication.  The connections are first considered at a detail scale. They use the literature review and case studies as a base for design before being tested using digitally fabricated prototypes. These prototypes are evaluated against a framework created in line with the aforementioned criteria. Within this framework, the connections are analysed against existing connection systems as well as previous designs to establish a successful system. The connections are then evaluated within the context of a building scale and considers large-scale fabrication and on- site assembly whilst continuing to focus on the reduction of waste. This research found that the simplicity of the connections is key to a successful system as this allows for faster and cheaper fabrication and installation. However, there is still further research needed surrounding large-scale fabrication and the structural capacity of timber connection systems.</p>

The question of access: Toward an equitable future of computational design

2021 ◽  
pp. 147807712110253
Author(s):  
Vernelle AA Noel ◽  
Yana Boeva ◽  
Hayri Dortdivanlioglu
Keyword(s):  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Design Pedagogy ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Perceptual Interaction

Digital fabrication and its cultivated spaces promise to break disciplinary boundaries and enable access to its technologies and computation for the broader public. This paper examines the trope of “access” in digital fabrication, design, and craft, and illustrates how it unfolds in these spaces and practices. An equitable future is one that builds on and creates space for multiple bodies, knowledges, and skills; allows perceptual interaction and corporeal engagement with people, materials, and tools; and employs technologies accessible to broad groups of society. By conducting comparative and transnational ethnographic studies at digital fabrication and crafting sites, and performing craft-centered computational design studies, we offer a critical description of what access looks like in an equitable future that includes digital fabrication. The study highlights the need to examine universal conceptions and study how they are operationalized in broader narratives and design pedagogy traditions.

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