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Digital Tectonics Plastic Architecture-Pet Flakes Many Slow Cities Into Smart Cities-Fluid City Didital Fabrication Experimental Workshops Resources and Energy-IAAC A Sustainable Building
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Digital Tectonics Architecture and technology have always been interlinked. The connection between both disciplines has affected their development throughout the years, with a constant challenging and redefining of the creational constraints. Perhaps now more than ever the technological breakthroughs and the advances in digital media and rapid manufacturing have changed immensely the way we conceive and materialize architecture as they revolutionized what is considered spatially and materially feasible. Along with the advent of digital means there is a new problematic in how matter is used and manipulated. Contrary to a human-driven design that is not engaging matter in its raw form, architects can create complex geometries by exploiting the technical and spatial potentialities of the material pushing the design. The properties and inherit laws that define matter can be embedded in a dynamic architectural process as a mode to achieve optimization. The purpose of Digital Tectonics is to investigate the connection between rapid manufacturing technology and a generative, materialdriven design, releasing the tension between how things are designed to work and how they work in fact. By confronting the rigid traditional prefabricated methods of architectural production the Studio aims to develop innovative fabrication processes using smart materials, embodying economy of means, feasibility and sustainability. In a logic of on-site deployment of fabrication, innovative architectural production processes enable building in remote locations that have little infrastructure or are even completely disconnected from technology. This novel approach to architecture links it with the matter of global environmental, economic and social balance leveling. Architecture should be responsive to emergent needs and additionally to the incorporation of intelligent manufacturing methods be able to provide adaptable and cost-effective architectural units.
IAAC
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Master in Advanced Architecture
Research Studio-Digital Tectonics
Plastic Architecture-Pet Flakes Was given the structural advances award
Director: Marta Male-Alemany Coordinator : Jordi Portell / Miquel Lloveras / Guillem Camprodon
October 2011 / June 2012
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THERMOPLASTIC - PET FLAKES CONVERTED BOTTLES INTO GRANULAR MATERIAL [ RECYCABLED ]
PET Worldwide 5.1 billion Tons 2.5 Million Plastic Bottles / Hour [U.S.] Lifespan 300 years raw material
sorting
Re - Used 500 - 1000 times Bottles made of PET are recycled to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going
plastic products are grinded down into smal particles - flakes
grinding
to landfills. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one
= 18 Grams of Flakes
of the most commonly used food grade packaging plastics due to its chemical inertness and appealing physical proper-
the flakes are washed to eliminate impurities and dirt
washing
ties.PET is commonly recycled, and has the number “1� as its recycling symbol.
Melting Temperature 230 C - 240 C
drying the drying process occurs in a centrifuge, hot air can be used at the end of the process
Viscosity 0.65 - 0.75 Material Quality / Trash Dumps
the plastic flakes are finally stored for additional uses
extruding
[ www pcipetpackaging co uk ]
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REFERENCES / INSPIRATIONS COLLECTING / PROCESS / MANIPULATION
Collecting [ Reusing ] / The Sea Chair Project Phase Changing Material [ Wax ] / Fluid Cast Plastic [ Molten Fridges] /
The Endless Chair [http://www.studioswine.com/STUDIO_SWINE/Sea_Chair.html]
A phase-changing material (PCM) is a substance with a high heat of fusion, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature. Exploiting their endothermic and exothermic reactions using the latent heat of fusion,they are capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy based on the energy stored in the chemical bonds. So far the uses of PCMs concern their application in thermal modification matters in multiple scales. Their exploitation within the design world could create structures able to be constantly transformed with the implementation of heat. [ http://marqa.cl/blog/2010/06/fluid-cast-architectural-association-drl-v-12]
Temperature / Change Phase Multiple Casting Systems Different Casting Systems Solidification Time [ www.dirkvanderkooij.nl] 5
SIMULATION OF CLUSTERS - GRASSHOPPER KANGAROO COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FORCES APPLIED ON MATERIALS PARTICLES
Repulsion Melting Plastic on a Planar Surface Attraction
Gravity
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TUBE ANATOMY / SIMULATE VERTICAL EXTRUSIONS DESIGN OPTIMIZATION [ C] / STABLE TEMPETATUTE { 230 - 240 C } / MANIPULATE SPEED
Speed Parameter
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[ speed act in the section of the Pipes ]
Pet Flakes
Heated Pet Flakes
Metalic Tube
Breaking Point
Steady Speed Rate
Increased Speed Rate
Two different Speed Rates
Breaking Point
Solid Pet Flakes Particles
Melted Plastic Particles
mm / s
[ mm /s ] x 2
mm / s + [ mm /s ] x 2
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PLASTIC EXTRUDER / TUBULAR PROTOTYPES PLASTIC EXTRUDER / TUBULAR PROTOTYPES Vertical Extrusion with Fixed Diameter [ molting temperature 230 C ]
Pet Flakes Extruder Supporting Material The structures are created without any need of a cast. The Connection to the Motor
same material works is both structural and supporting.
Diagramatic Approach Tube in sections
Catalyst
Screws in the Nozzle Body / 8 mm
No catalyst is used for the solidification process. The solidification of the material happens through the exposure to the
Wooden Body / 10 mm
environment
Plastic Helix to Press and Feed Material
Translucent Pipe for Continuous Deposition
Refil the NoZZle
Wooden Support Element
Refi X 3 ,during the extraction process you can stop the reassure of the material and refil the steal
Connection to CNC Machine
pipe
Nozzle Steel Head / 56 mm
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DEVELOPING THE STRUCTURE ALGORITHM LINDEMAYER SYSTEM ALGORITHM / SKIN STRUCTURE ALGORITHM
Fibonacci Sequence [ numeric control ] [ connections ] [ rate of grouth ] L-System [ axiom ] [ first recursion ] [ second recursion ] [ third recursion ]
Design Outcome / Connection[s]
Diagonal Tube Diameter 58mm Solidification time 30’’ Extruding speed 1 mm /s Connection Strength
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MACHINING PROTOTYPING / MANUAL EXTRUDERS ABS FIBER WAS DRIVEN IN A SCREWING COUPLING TIP OF 3MM DIAMETER
DC Motor / 12 Volts
Power Suply / 12 Volts
Resistor > 300 C
151 mm
Spiral Variations
48mm
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4 AND 1/2 AXIS ROTATION / FOLLOWING THE TRAJECTORY THE PLASTIC EXTRUDER FOLLOW THE TANGENT OF THE FIBERS
Vertical to the Trajectory Tangent
Wooden Frame / 10 mm
Dc Motor / 12 Volts Nozzle Trajectory Feeding Force
Gravitational Forces ABS Plastic Aperture
Servo Motor & Gears
Aligned To the Trajectory Tangent / Optimised Solution
4 and 1/2 axis Rotation Thermistor > 300 Degrees [C ]
Nozzle Head / 3 mm
Nozzle Trajectory
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AXIAL DEFORMATIONS / DEFINE THE PROBLEMS DEFINE THE PROBLEMS DURING THE EXTRUSION PROCESS
Possible Deformation on the Whole Geometry / Spiral in X & Y Plane
The gravity vector was dragging down some parts that were just extruded, and hence in a semi-liquid state, and created unexpected trajectories. This problem was noticed in a sine curve, where the upper parts started to collapse right after extrusion, losing their designed curvature. The second effect due to gravity concerned the shrinking of the geometry along its height when the extrusion was over, as when the fiber was detached from the nozzle the structure driven by its own weight was retreating vertically a few centimeters. Deformations were also noticed in XY plane. The
Possible Deformation on the Connections / Wall Structure in X Plane
33mm
40mm
nozzle was slightly pulling the geometry while printing, which overall signified a shift from the initially set geometry.
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SIMULATIONS AND STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR SPEED RATE AND TEMPERATURE AFFECT THE FINAL DESIGN OUTCOME Control Points
z - z vector t - tangent vector p0 - origin point p1 - new point d - deformation a - angle between vectors
Nozzle Trajectory
Z Deformation
t - tangent vectors p1,p2 - origin points p1-2,p2-3 - new points d1-2,d2-3 - deformation a1-2 - angle between tangents
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COMPUTER VISION / RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS SCANNING THE WHOLE STRUCTURE / DEFINE THE NEW CONNECTION POINTS TO GENERATE NEW CODE
Indicate Possible Displacement of Points Along the Structures During Printing Accumulating real time data and re-informing the executing geometrical code create a new nozzle path for the next sine curve layer
Nozzle Head 3mm Deformation in Structure While Printing
G-Code path Printed Structure
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SPACE FEELING CURVES STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION BASED ON CURVES / OPTIMIZING PATHS
Double Curved Surfaces Continoous Structure / Filling Space
Geometry
Structural Optimazation of Surface
Continoous Structure / Filling Space
Points and Curvature Analysis
Continoous Structure / Filling Space
Surfaces Variations
New Optimaized Surface
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FRACTAL PLASTIC EXTRUDER / CHOREOGRAPHY BASED ON SHUTTER TECHNOLOGY / MULTIPLE HEADS
Diagramatic Nozzle Sequence
So far the nozzles bear one extrusion tip
Shutter Mechanism
that, in order to complicate the struc-
Moving Nozzle Heads
Fully Closed
tures, inextricable and time consuming g-codes had to be executed. In the scenario which suggests that one nozzle could be analyzed in an x number of
External Gear / 20 Teeth
tips, the extruded threads instead of mono-fibers would be compound entities that rotate, bundle and create complex configurations. These multi-threads can
Internal Gear / 70 Teeth
Starting to Open
be combined with others to upgrade the structural resolution and work as n number of components of woven geometries. The approach carries a fractal logic that is scaless and could theoretically be applied from a level of a micro-scale of plastic fibers to a megastructure, in the sense that the same organizational rules
Gradually Open
Dc Motor 360 / !2 Volts
could be applied for the components and the structure itself.
Plastic Extruders Resistors / 240 C In Progress
Almost Full Diameter
Woven Structure
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SWARM GEOMETRIES
Printing Simultaneously / Increasing the Scale By Increasing the Complexity
BASED ON CHOREOGRAPHY & SCALELESS PLASTIC EXTRUDERS
Avoiding Collizions
Increasing the Complexity
Follow the Trajectory / Face Two
Plastic Extruders
Twenty One Nozzles / Face One
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PARASITE RAIN DISTRIBUTOR BASED ON CHOREOGRAPHY & SCALELESS PLASTIC EXTRUDERS
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‘‘PET FLAKES II‘‘ / ON SITE COLLECTION COLLECTING / SEPERATING & REUSING PLASTIC WASTE
Pacific Garbage Path
Size Location The Garbage patch is located in the North Pacific Cyre, one of the five major swirling vortices of currents in the world’s ocean
Plastic Pieces 39% larger than 1 millimeter 35% 1 millimeter wide 17% 0.5 millimeter wide 10% 0.3 millimeters wide
[ illustration by Jacob Magraw-Mickelson ]
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Floationg City
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Gravity
RISES SAFELY IN AN ARCHIMEDEAN LIQUID LANDSCAPE Construction Limit
Sea Level
Shifting Balance
Construction Limit
Sea Level
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Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Christiana Vlanti Pavlos Bakagiannis Theodoros Grousopoulos
Plastic Architecture-Pet Flakes
Was given the structural advances award
Emergent ecological problems require a different approach as far as the architectural practice is concerned. As architecture cannot be seen independently from its environment and especially today more than any time in the past the design, the material and the actual architectural process must comply with and adapt to the occurred environmental needs. Triggered by the global issue of plastic waste and its consequences, the project seeks to contribute to the literal purge of the problem. Instead of using an aggregate raw material, it exploits the potential of a material coming immediately from postconsumer waste, approaching through an innovative manner. Thus, PET plastic coming straight from garbage are used in order to explore the relation between matter, design and technology. Its abundance and chemical and physical properties were crucial for its choice. The purpose of this project is to investigate a range of design and production methods using PET flakes by setting up digital work flows that are constantly fed with data by the material system. After a series of experiments to fully understand the behaviour of the raw material, the project develops structure methodologies using sensor-based generative design methods connected to customized fabrication hardware. The ultimate goal of this research is to propose application of PET in architecture allowing a potential construction of structures on site. The structures are created without any need of a cast. The same material works is both structural and supporting.No catalyst is used for the solidification process. The solidification of the material happens through the exposure to the environment. http://vimeo.com/search?q=thepetflakesproject
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IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia GROUND FLOOR FUNCTIONS STRATEGY
CURRENT SITUATION
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PROPOSAL STEP 2
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Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Farshad Mehdizadeh Mehran Haghbin
Many Slow Cities Into Smart Cities-Fluid City
Cities could be considered as living machines of data and information that both users and evironment generate. Are our cities capable to respond to our behavioral and environmental changes? With these given zones and question:
Parking: How can we redifine the role of the car in the city? Open Space: Can we optimize the way we use our open space? Adaptability: How can we design space strategies for different uses in different periods of time? Time Maps: Could we program the city over its different times? Could citizens decide how and when to use the public space? Natural Systems: Can our city be a healthy and sustainable ecosystem? Productivity: What do cities produce today? Information: Which kind of information can we access in the city? Could citizens become data producers? Urban OS: Could cities function as operating systems? Can we think our buildings as networked computers?
A start of a new method of thinking, to understand the dilemma, to approach the city block, superbloack and the city, the decision was made to approach it with these strategies: devices and public space, information/real time maps and public space, infrastructures and public space, apps/digital platforms and public space management.After studying the function and topology of the superblock, analyzing different densities of people, mobility, social groups, and different time maps for the walking paths, all based on the time period that users spend in the superblock during the day. The final proposal was divided in to two parts: -The first part was to make the ground floor more functional, by removing the ground floor barriers and keeping only the Residential vertical access, it was possible to make the superblock more functional by adding the layers of Green paths, plazas, synthetic topography Ground surface and Functional zoning underground. -The second part was to implement the intelligent urban facilities, where a proposal of machines that can help and advice all users, regarding the superblock water facilities, lighting, restaurants and air quality, also it can be used as an infrastructure furniture, from a light or a bench to a delivery service or cleaning the superblock. 33
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LAMP-Laser cutting
PANEL-Milling
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Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Aron Biro Pavlos Bakajohn
Digital Fabrication LAMP-Laser cutting: The aim of the exercise was to get familiar with the first of three digital fabrication tools that will be explored during the course: the laser cutter. By the end of the course, every student should be familiar with modeling digitally, inventing strategies to translate a geometry into an articulated constructible solution, producing the cad file to be used for machining, fabricating the pieces and assembling them into a finished object. The main particularity of the laser cutter as a fabrication technology is that it is exclusively used on sheet materials. Apart from the skills and tasks mentioned above, the student will have to work inventively and creatively to imagine and produce a three dimensional object that exploits some of the properties of the material. For example, paper is a material that can be folded or bent to achieve three-dimensionality. PANEL-Milling: This exercise was an introduction to the exploration of CNC milling processes in architecture, by exploring the use of a 3-axis milling machine at IAAC. Belonging to the subtractive technologies, this machine is a very versatile equipment, because it allows to perform the combination of contour cutting and surface milling processes, in both sheet and block-type materials. In general, subtractive fabrication processes are used in architecture to help achieving a higher degree of geometric complexity and serial variation in the production of building components. JOINTS-3D Printing: The last digital fabrication exercise was an introduction into the world of 3D-Printing for architecture. Going beyond the conventional use of 3D printers in the architectural practice as tools for building models, this exercise proposes to explore the possibilities of one of the 3D Printing techniques, Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), for prototyping. It was the main objective of this exercise to discover the key advantages of FDM comparing to other fabrication techniques and take this singularities into consideration in the early design phases. 35
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Matter, Materiality and Material Organisation
Landscape Infrastructure
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Material Distribution
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Matter, Materiality and Material Organisation in Architecture Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Akhil Kapadia Christiana Vlanti Hunia Tomoum Maria Ponz Dacuna Pavlos Bakagiannis Sasa Jokic
Landscape Infrastructure
Material Distribution
Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Ahmad Derhalli
Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Ahmad Derhalli Alejandro Nunez Lapez Esteban Sepulveda Giorgio Badalacchi
Experimental Workshops
Matter, Materiality and Material Organisation in Architecture: A machinic architecture with an underspecified material, spatial, performative and programmatic goal, able to evolve in real-time within the IAAC post-industrial void. The void is filled with trajectories, densities, intensities and processes; it is converted into a new systemic “FUN PALACE”. The workshop operates as a machinic protocol for the syntetisis of the PALACE whose “rooms” coagulate from raw materials, organisational principles, individual experience as well as group coordination, all in real-time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Pcc8hAqnNo
Landscape Infrastructure: The main task was mapping the telecommunication cables in the bathymetry of the Mediterranean to have a better understanding of the information transfer between continents and to comprehend the form of this dynamic flow in fiber cables which respond to the complexity of the Mediterranean bathymetry. The final step was to represent this dynamic relation in a bigger scale and self explanatory model. Material Distribution: The workshop main objectives were experimenting structural systems, material optimization and fabricating the designed object. The main idea was creating a two person bench (1.2m x 0.5m) with a simple surface shaped like o-elongated in the horizontal axis using MDF wood with varied thicknesses (3mm and 12mm). The second step was to simulate the loads and fixed supports using millipede plug-in for grasshopper to generate the stress diagrams and areas of tension and compression for the basic geometry. 37
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Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed Ahmed Derhalli Alexandre Dubor Chun-Yu Lin Farshad Mehdizadeh Seyedahmed Bathaei Theodoros Grousopoulos
Resources and Energy-IAAC A Sustainable Building
The main objective of this project was to help in making our school a cleaner space for all users, in a way that can be sustainable, by using sustainable materials and energy, and even trying to achieve the self sufficient building idea. Taking in account our own views and ideas about the school, we started analyzing the issues of noise, air quality, water consumption, energy consumption and daylight analysis. In order to improve air quality, different decision have been taken : - Close the fab lab space and install a treatment system for the air extracted. - Improve natural ventilation with the central roof opening. - Clean the air with the help of the vegetation wall. - Ask our neighbor to respect the law and install a cleaning system on top of their extraction system. The use of Photovoltaic Panel system for less energy consumption. In the proposal only a part of IAAC’s big wall will use the babylon system (a system that recycles gray water). Then the rest of the vegetation along the wall could be more specific to clean the air and improve the thermal comfort in summer. The filtered water that is coming from the babylon system can be stored in a tank that can be filled also with rain water, it will help in keeping enough water that will compensate the water that is naturally evaporates. 46
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After my graduation, I wanted to work on producing exceptional and outstanding Architectural Design that does not resemble normal and local architecture style. This awareness has developed immensely during the time I joined Arch. Mohammed Elfatih office. During that period we were successful in delivering exceptional and well recognized projects. Our main idea was to combine simplicity with complexity. We used modern architecture and combined it with traditional architecture; we created buildings with modern elevations and combining it with natural stones found in the area and traditional style found in the Nubian local architecture in Sudan. Sudan is a very hot and dry country, especially the northern part. We continuously seek to accommodate clients with the best architectural solutions to reduce the effects of heat by using greenery and transparency to cool down the hot sunny climate in summer, by providing openings in the perimeter wall of the building to make a good current ventilation that resulted from the greenery and even an open sub basements helps in making the cool surroundings of currents wind. 50
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Akram Ahmed Salah Ahmed
Merowe National Museum For Nubian Heritage
In my final thesis, I have chosen to design the Merowe National Museum for Nubian Heritage, from the early beginning of the project, immediately the decision regarding the location was made to be in Merowe. Merowe is 437 km from the capital Khartoum, Sudan, the name may have helped in the decision, however in Merowe there are many attractions that may be more interesting for tourists such as the Historical sites in Merowe (Al kurro and Mount Albarakl), The Nile, and Merowe’s Ferries. The importance of such project is to highlight the availability of wealth and the heritage of the country to encourage the creation of the elements of tourists and capitals, which helps the development of the economy in Sudan. In order to create comfortable areas and nice views the design concept was centred around abstract ideas such as value , openness ,steadiness through using the elements that illustrate the Nubian civilization, openings, columns , pyramid shapes and Diagonal forms, with main guide lines, such as, studied function components, studied circulations, Very well directed circulation and analyzed services. 55
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In the first term, as part of the bachelors degree final year, the first project that was proposed was a Factory, as it was done every year with a change in the function of the Factory, we were asked to design a Meat Processing Center, of course like all factories the main idea was in the process of the materials “in this case meat� that would be produced in this Factory. The function came out from the axis and requirements to process the meat as shown in the plans, as for the form functionality, it was biased on the axis of the meat process, the form starts from the delivery area and cold rooms, going throw the production hall, and ends in the storage freezers and product distribution. In the form there were two different spaces that were Shown in a different colour and form, which represent the restaurant, cafeteria and the management offices. The idea of future expansions in factories is always open and possible; therefore a proposal to have the side area near the production hall that is fully accessible was left empty to serve this purpose. 58