Digital Fabrication
ADVANCED COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
2012
Cyprus//University of Cyprus
Tutor// Kontovourkis Odysseas
Stella Taousiani, Maria Kyrisavva, Marina Michael, Gioula Kyriakidou.
The use of software programs and computational methods as architectural design tools for both composition and communication is having a great impact to contemporary design. This project focuses on the understanding and use of the possibilities offered by digital machines(like 3D printer) in prototyping, from the stage of design to the stage of final fabrication/implementation.
Particularly, at first point a unit was designed with the use of Rhino software. The designing goal was to make this unit easy-to-connect with others but also structurally autonomous.
AUTONOMOUS UNIT DESIGN
physical computing, digital fabrication, 3D printer, autonomous unit, rhino, scissors
The final unit was inspired by the scissors mechanism with 8 connection points. The connections between the units were designed as well and finally, the whole system of units was transformed around a specific surface. A part of the whole system was finally printed in 3D-printer at the last stage of fabrication and the final product was a 3D model which functions as a strong structural system.
