Industrial Scale Manufacturing
This research was done during Spring 2020 in the Advanced Fabrication Architecture & Design course at Virginia Tech. I worked on a team with Callan McGill and Taylor Davis to develop the following concepts.
Reoccurring Theme: Lightness
Form Study 1
Reoccurring Theme: Lightness
Form Study 1
Procedural CAD process was done in Houdini:
Printed Artifact: Our goal was to create a table with a reaction diffusion pattern on one side, that gradually transitions to a simple circle. We wanted to test the machine to see how detailed of a path it could follow, and to what overhang angles it could handle successfully. We ran into problems with the path not being continuous all the way around, which greatly increased the printing time.
Form Study 2:
The theme of "Lightness" continues with thinking about column structures. Pictured below are scale models (1 inch = 1 foot) which will hopefully be 3D printed at full scale (18 feet tall) and assembled at ICFF.
Thinking about the view of a person who would get to stand inside the large scale tower:
With this next project our goal was to ideate on a tower design with the intention of printing at full scale and presenting at our booth at ICFF. The constraints for this project were: 18 feet tall, 3x3 foot footprint, and to design with the knowledge that the final tower will have to be transported in pieces and assembled on site. Therefore some type of connection would have to be designed into the structure. I chose to create a very abstracted representation of a tower, composed of curves and no straight lines. This would allow for an interior space that would fit one person, and the vertical space would create a visual that resembles the narrow ravines of Arizona. In the last photo, I experimented with varying the texture between the outside and inside space, with a smooth inner section and rough outer wall. This would create a juxtaposition between the spaces, as well as helping to conceal the mechanical connection of the bolts in the original model photos.
Form Study 3 & Final Presentation:
