Viability of Additive manufacturing in fabricating Architectural Products: an Academic Review on the Current State of Industry 4.0, Digital Fabrication Methods and Sustainability Goals for the contemporary Architectural practice

This paper explores the potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in contemporary architecture within the context of Industry 4.0 and sustainability goals. The paper provides a historic overview of manufacturing through classification of Industrial revolutions. It discusses the societal, environmental, and technological shifts brought about by...

Interlocking wood-to-wood joinery connections with moisture induce process: Interlocking optimization of digital manufactured households: an alternative construction system as solution for affordable housing in Colombia

From a global perspective, the building industry is one of the significant factors of environmental impact on the planet. Related activities in this industry refer to 40% of total carbon emissions; 28% of this value accounts for building operations, while the remaining 12% represents the manufacturing of new construction materials. Studies have...

Development of a Thumb Metacarpophalangeal Joint Splint

In daily life, we are constantly using our hands to do everything that is important to us. The thumbs play a critical role in this and losing stability of your thumb leads to a reduced Quality of Life. There are numerous conditions that can lead to joint problems in the thumb that negatively affect its stability, like rheumatoid arthritis,...

Venously Printed: Multi-material 3D printed responsive fluidic interfaces with programmable dynamic appearance triggered by mechanical deformation.

Venously printed contributes to the field of HCI and digital manufacturing by exploring the scope and possibilities for programmable and responsive fluidic interfaces, using multi-material 3D printing as a manufacturing technique. Novel meta-materials and computational composites have proven to open up new design paradigms and continue to expand...

Digital Earthen Shelters: Additively Manufacturing Mass Customized Refugee Shelters Using On-Site Earthen Materials

Continued humanitarian crises have caused the amount of forcibly displaced people to increase rapidly in recent years, creating an urgent need for constructing adequate sheltering to house the displaced. Governments and international organizations attempt to accommodate the growing demands by subsidizing and mass producing temporary transitional...

Bioreceptive Habitats: Engineering a bioreceptivity-oriented design strategy through digital and physical experimentation.

Bioreceptivity is a natural phenomenon that has been observed on building material for many years. Bioreceptivity is when materials are being colonized by one or more species of living organisms without necessarily going under biodeterioration. (Guillitte, 1995) Based on the literature, bioreceptivity depends on three main factors: on climatic...

Sustainable Timber Bridge Design with Design-to-Build Workflow Involving Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC)

Buiksloterham, situated on the northern banks of the IJ river, is undergoing massive urban redevelopment as it transits from an industrial town to a mix-use development. However the lack of connectivity within the neighbourhood has become an ever more prominent problem for its growing residents and workers. Gemeente Amsterdam has proposed the...

Digital Fabrication of a Timber Bridge: Design, optimisation, fabrication and testing at global and connection level

Rapid developments of both new (digital) fabrication techniques and innovative software facilitate the possibility to design, check and construct objects with great complexity and uniqueness without a large price tag. After new techniques slowly entered the field of architecture, the next step is to apply them in civil engineering to design load...

Facade Elements for 3DCP: Structural viability of facade elements manufactured by 3D Concrete Printing

The novel technique of 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) shows great potential in the reduction of labor and material as well as the fabrication of freeform design. Different research institutions and companies recognize this potential and have set up printers to further investigate and develop the technique all over the world. Some pioneering...