DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2015 M3 JOURNAL - YOUR PROJECT TITLE Lucas Buainain Alves & Xiaodi Zhang
705387 & 657695 Tutor: Michelle Emma James Group: Paneling and Fold / Section and Profile
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Introduction Having a good understanding of what is surrounding you is key to being able to control your personal space. With that in mind, our helmet looking structure hides and protects where you don’t have eye sight. While keeping yourself permeable if needed.
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Design development Feedback: The model does not match with the body -Adjust the connection method on the top: MDF for the top circle. Wire for the bottom circle in order to match the shoulder and back -Create a series of movement mechanism
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Design development + fabrication of Prototype V.2
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Reading Response Wk 6 Architecture in the Digital Age - Design + Manufacturing/ Branko Kolarevic, Spon Press, London c2003
The week 6 reading introduced that the process of digitalizing fabrication. Physical models can be transformed into digital models by point clouds. Patterns of points are scanned to generate NURB curves and then loft NURB surfaces by the curves. When the digital design is finished, it can be transformed to physical models by CNC cutting. We select later cutter to cut our design, and we choose MDF as the material. The advantages of the MDF is that the joint would be firmed with the thickness.
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Reading applied to design
We designed the joint gap based on the thickness of material which is 3MM MDF. By labeling all the pieces down, we are able to assemble them easily and quickly in correct orders.
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Reading Response Wk 7 Digital Fabrications: architectural + material techniques/Lisa Iwamoto. New York: Princeton Architectural Press c2009
Digital design software depicted the digital design in three-dimensional ways which is straightforward to look at. The digital technologies also allow the designers to see the design make changes to the design quickly. Parametric software, like Grasshopper, provides the possibility of making variations of the design according to a curve or based on a formula. This designing method is impossible for hand drawing or other two dimensional designing ways. Relating to the digital fabrication, designers do not need to draw a lot of drawings to represent their design in different angles, because 3D printing can make the digital model automatically and it can be widely used for building construction and industries.
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Reading applied to design Referencing from the lectures and readings, what is the implication of digital fabrication on your design ?
In our design, we did similar process to digitalize the important figures related to the body. In order to match the model with the body, we measured the appropriate length of the sections in the front, on the shoulders and at the back. Then we started to make the boundary of each piece based on the figures in Rhino.
We also make a series of variation of the sections based on Rhino command Scale and Tween Curve. By using the digital software, there is more space for us to work on the variations, and they look more harmoniously.
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Design development
Following the eye sight diagram, key pieces were designed to enhance the comprehension of the different levels of awareness. 5 degrees: Highest point of focus. Pieces have a bigger spacing for higher permeability 50 - 60 degrees: Focus range. Pieces still allow reasonable pemeability 94 - 104 degrees: Visibility range, but out of focus range. Pieces are closer together for protection when needed. Transition to “blackout� area.
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Prototype
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Design development
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Design development
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Prototype optimisation
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Prototype optimisation
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2nd Skin final design
Awareness Diagram
Final Design Images
Fabrication Sequence
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Assembly Drawing
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2nd Skin
2nd Skin
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Appendix