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OMAR GENEIDY Digital Design | Robotic Fabrication
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS Masters Project, (2019). Simultaneous reinforcement of concrete while 3D printing.
12.09.1994 Egyptian Male Salah Salem St. Heliopolis, Cairo,Egypt.
EDUCATION Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, IaaC. Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction (MRAC) , 2018-2019.
British University In Egypt, BUE. Architecture Department, 2012-2017.
ACHIEVEMENTS Masters:
Received a partial scholarship for academic excellence.
Bachelor:
Graduated with a First-Class Honor, ranked second over cohort. Received a grant for the best disseration project idea.
LANGUAGES Arabic
Native, Fluently spoken and written.
English
Fluently spoken and written.
Main Author, (2019). A critical review for applying three-dimensional concrete wall printing technology in Egypt, Architectural Science Review, In press. Co-Author, (2018). Investigating the Application of The Three- Dimensional Wall Building Technology In Egypt. Bachelor Thesis, (2017). Wall building Utilising 3D printing technology in construction projects.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, IBOIS - EPFL, Switzerland. July 2019 - Dec 2019. My scope of work at the lab was focused on design and digital fabrication. Using a Robot arm and a CNC, for projects realized with wood as a building material. Architect, Yusuf Fahmy Architects (YFA), Egypt. Feb 2018- May 2018. YFA is a design studio, specialized in digital design. I was a part of their design team for 3 months. During that time we were working on a large-scale digitally designed project in Egypt. Freelance Designer, Upwork. Sep 2017 - Oct 2018. Running a team of professional freelancers. Working on a wide range of Architectural and Product Design projects in Canada, USA, UK, Egypt and Indonesia through the online platform “Upwork�
TEACHING Sep 2019, Parametric Workshop; EPFL, Switzerland. Had the pleasure of giving a 5 days, 20 hours, intensive parametric workshop to the students of “The Master of Science in Architecture” at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. As part of their studio course conducted by The Laboratory for Timber Construction (IBOIS). Autumn 2019, Atelier Weinand; EPFL, Switzerland. Was part of the teaching team at the studio course Atelier Winand for the students of the “The Master of Science in Architecture” at EPFL. On going, online courses in digital design. I have a published Rhino course in Arabic, on 3 different online platforms with more than 2,000 students enrolled. And, currently I am about to publish another course in Grasshopper.
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION May 2019, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. Discretizing Robotic Processes Workshop.
Nov 2018, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. Body & Ornament Workshop.
April 2019, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. Robotic and Mixed Reality Workshop.
Oct 2018, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. Reinforced Fibers Workshop.
March 2019, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. From Design to Control Workshop.
July 2016, AA; Istanbul, Turkey. AA Istanbul Visiting School.
Feb 2019, IaaC; Barcelona, Spain. Informed Intervention Workshop.
COMPUTER SKILLS
PERSONAL SKILLS
Rhino & Grasshopper Kuka & ABB Robot Arms
Solution-Oriented Team Work
Python Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
Organized Presentation
REFERENCES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST . . .
Last Update: 01.01.20
SIMULTANEOUS REINFORCEMENT OF CONCRETE WHILE 3D PRINTING
Year 2019 Type Masters Project Team Omar Geneidy | Sujay Kumarji Institute IaaC
Overview Three Dimensional Printing (3DP) has been introduced into the construction industry for over two decades until now, However, the scaling up of the technology is currently stagnant due to some difficulties like printing horizontal or cantilever structures and printing structures over one floor heigh. This research is proposing a new process of reinforcing printed structures simultaneously while printing using a scalable, straightforward process. The process comprises of pushing multiple small wire profiles into printed layers. Together, the staples form an overall lattice structure that binds the printed layers together and compliments the overall structural soundness of the print during and after printing.
For project video, please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzYABX-ycaw
Diagrams describing the process of layer stapling
Printing & Stapling Toolhead Development
Prototyping
Round Wood Robotic Scanning Year 2019 Type Research Project Team Petras Vestartas | Omar Geneidy Institute IBOIS - EPFL
Overview In this project as a first step for production, a FARO scanner was mounted on an ABB Robotic arm to scan straight and forked round wood beams. Five scans were conducted for each round wood beam. A script was then used to align scans combine, segment & process them. Extracting central axis of the beams, so as to align the Robotic tool path to the used beam geometry.
Scanner Callibration
Aligned Point Cloud With 3D Digital Space
Merging Multiple Scans
Forked Round Wood Beams Scans
Straight Round Wood Beam Scan
Round Wood Reciprocal Structure Year 2019 Type Research Project Team Petras Vestartas | Omar Geneidy Institute IBOIS - EPFL
Overview This project was an exploration into the use of round wood beams in to reciprocal structures. A 1:1 prototype was developed using 17 beams forming 2 complete reciprocal fans. Modules were secured together by a wooden panel. The project was realized by the use of a 5 axis CNC machine.
Conceptual Structures
For the project video, please follow this link www.omargeneidy.com/injected-joinery
INJECTED JOINERY Year 2019 Type Masters Project Members Apoorv Vaish | Omar Geneidy | Sebastian Voigt | Stefano Meloni Institute IaaC
Overview A novel injection-based joinery system that can be the next step in autonomous robotic-fabrication. Creating a new kind of complex structures with a hidden and neat connection. This can speed up the process of prefabrication of strong assembly nodes without human interference.
Joints Designs + Injection Tests
Developed injection tool mounted on a small ABB Robot
As part of the research, we developed an injection tool that could be mounted on a robot tool head. Such tool is used to inject our binding material in the milled pockets using two holes drilled during the process; one for injection and one for releasing air pressure. This tool is still in testing and developing phase.
Process
1. Cutting connection angle
2. Milling First Joint 3. Milling second Joint
4. drilling injection holes
5. Assembly + Injection
ROBOTIC SCANNING in ARCHITECTURe
For the project video, please follow this link youtube.com/watch?v=Y5F03U8J6UQ
Year 2019 Type Masters Project Members Apoorv Vaish | Omar Geneidy | Sujay Kumarji | Owaze Ansari Institute IaaC
Overview This project is an exploration in the use of robotic scanning to scan, analyze and extract geometric and contextual site information that would inform architectural decision making. Such a technique will able to extract not only conventional site survey data but also concealed data in the site (ex, thermal, humidity, … ). And it does that with less workforce, and in significantly less time when compared to traditional methods especially when used in big construction sites.
SCANNING HARDWARE ACTION CAMERA
LIDAR
KINECT
TURTLEBOT BURGER
FIRST SITE
IAAC VALLDAURA CAMPUS
POINT CLOUD RESULTS
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS SEGMENTATION
INTEGRAL VOLUME CALCULATION
DRAWINGS EXTRACTION
LINKAGE TO BIM MODEL
SECOND SITE
IAAC POBLENOU CAMPUS
THERMAL POINT CLOUD GENERATION
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POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
RESTORATION
RENOVATION
ADAPTIVE REUSE
CONSERVATION & PRESERVATION
The following table compares the different sets of data that could be provided along with the target customers for them. Architects / Contractors Site Images Architectural Drawings Material Survey BIM Model
Thermal Analysis Humidity Analysis Structural Data
As-Built Drawings
Developers
Municipality
Sinusoidal Desk
For the project video, please follow this link www.omargeneidy.com/sinusoidal-desk
Year 2018 Type Professional Client Omar Ehab Studio Design Omar Geneidy Execution Omar Geneidy | Ahmad Amr | Ahmed Wael
Overview This desk was designed to be used by a photography studio owner. his requirements ranged from an eye-catching design to detailed functional requirements: like having different gadgets and equipment to be used on the desk, the positioning and the angle of the chair in the room, different modes of using the desk (meeting clients, self-development, executing work ) and the ease of transporting from one place to another in case of moving out to another studio.
OFFICE Desk
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Year 2018 Type For Personal Use Design Omar Geneidy Execution Omar Geneidy
Overview This desk was designed and executed for my personal work station at home. The design came from an urge to have a space to study and work at that is suitable for the different type of tasks I make and gadgets I use. Being not able to find a desk in the market that has all of the functionality I was looking for. I was motivated to design my own one, according to my own preferences, requirements, usage, and space constraints.
AA ISTANBUL VISITING SCHOOL Year 2016 Type Workshop Project
Overview A KUKA robotic arm was used to build a 1:1 pavilion inside Bilgi university campus using hot wire cutting technique.
3d Concrete printing Year 2017 Type Bachelor Thesis Institute BUE
Overview As part of my research dissertation, I was exploring the new technology of 3D printing in construction projects. It was a pilot study that aimed to explore building efficient and sturdy walls exploiting 3D printing technology in a local context. This study was conducted for the purpose of minimizing time, cost and wastes in wall construction while increasing precision and design flexibility. An apparatus was needed to validate the appropriateness of the different concrete mixes tested. This apparatus had to be mimicking the same concepts adopted by actual 3D concrete printers; the same layer by layer technique, and the same concrete journey from the concrete holder to the nozzle.
Image Showing the Design of the Prototype Machine.
Designed Nozzle, Rendered VS Actual.
The Execution Process of the Prototype.
The Printing Process in Second Trial.
Printing Process in The Final Trial (Trial Number 5).
Closer look to the Printed Layers.
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