GROUP | 002 Edward Park / Cindy Nachareun Materialising with Machinic Agency
Group 002 | References
The design begins with nested components that can be created out of the normative geometry of a cube. This allows for users to begin with easily accessible and modular source material. The design adds functionality, optimizes material waste, and adds interest when the individual pieces are pulled apart. Illegible in its cube form, the different sets of cubes can add a playful surprise to any space. Even once the components are separated, there is an ambiguity that allows for each piece to be multifunctional.
Group 002 | Diagrams & Geometry Setup
In order to reduce material waste and understand its benefits, the following can be considered: Regardless of the number of cuts, volume can remain constant while surface area and complexity increases. Natural systems typically utilize these principle in order to optimize processes to conserve energy and boost efficiency. This is a process of material manipulation rather than of subtraction which hot wire cutting is typically regarded as. We can create nested objects that contain surprising geometries, all while having zero material waste.
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Cutting plane with only 2D transformations
Cutting plane with only rotated 2D transformations
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Adding edge loops and additional vertices, faces are deleted and resulting vertices bridged. Diagonal approach.
Adding edge loops and additional vertices, faces are deleted and resulting vertices bridged. Stacked version.
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Cutting plane with 2D + 3D transformations
Simplified cutting planes with 3D transformations
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Adding edge loops and additional vertices, faces are deleted and resulting vertices bridged. Resulted in pointed corners which pose problems for fabrication.
Adding edge loops and additional vertices, faces are deleted and resulting vertices bridged. Resulted angles which were too harsh.
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Combined cutting plane transformations
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Refined combined cutting planes with added functionality
Refined curves through bridging that both intersect and result in multiple functioning surfaces.
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Cutting Diagram - Object 1
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Hot Cire Cut Foam Block - Object 1
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Cutting Diagram - Object 2
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Challenges with fabrication setup
The grasshopper script required 4 corner points to create a path. The corners of this mesh needed to be champhered very slightly.
Group 002 | Explorations Fabrication Catalogue
Hot Wire Cut Foam Block - Object 2
Group 002 | Explorations Digital Catalogue
Object scale and contextual explorations
Group 002 | Data Collection
3D Scanning Interface + Setup + Robot Arm Coordinates
Group 002 | Data Collection
OBJECT I
OBJECT II
Mesh Comparison - Object 1 + 2
Culling Point Clouds
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Generation
Group 002 | Ornament Fabrication
Group 002 | Ornament Fabrication
Group 002 | Critical Thinking
Challenges
Potentials
Lack of experience using the various software and languages to communicate and provide instructions to the robot arm.
Fabrication of large scale installations with unique extrudable material.
Compressed timeline and availability to design, hot wire cut, 3d scan, and 3d print components.
Photogrammetry and point cloud manipulation for real time analysis.
Technological limitations for ornamentation development.
More accurate prototyping methodology. Lessons Learnt
Online learning setting can make it hard to communicate issues with troubleshooting. Limitations Only a limited number of foam blocks of specific dimensions were available to use. Using hardware remotely made it difficult to easily troubleshoot and manipulate the robot arm. Due to current conditions, we were unable to pick up our cut pieces which would have helped with determining how we may develop the form further.
Robot arms need to be told every single step in a very precise way. Digital fabrication is just as much of an iterative process as any other design or fabrication method. To an extent there remains a disconnect between the simulations we run on our computers and the physical outcomes from the robot arms.
APPENDIX
Group 002 | Appendix
Group 002 | Appendix
Group 002 | Appendix
Group 002 | Appendix
Group 002 | Appendix
Group 002 | Appendix