Materially Informed Design to Robotic Production

Materially Informed Design to Robotic Production: A Robotic 3D Printing System for Informed Material Deposition

Mostafavi, Sina (TU Delft Digital Architecture)
Bier, H.H. (TU Delft Digital Architecture)

Reinhardt, Dagmar (editor)
Saunders, Rob (editor)
Burry, Jane (editor)

2016-02-04

This paper presents and discusses the development of a materially informed Design-to-Robotic-Production (D2RP) process for additive manufacturing aiming to achieve performative porosity in architecture at various scales. An extended series of experiments on materiality employing robotic fabrication techniques were implemented in order to finally produce a prototype on one-to-one scale. In this context, design materiality has been approached from both digital and physical perspectives. At digital materiality level, a customized computational design framework has been implemented for form finding of compression only structures combined with a material distribution optimization method. Moreover, the chained connection between the parametric design model and the robotic production setup has enabled a systematic study of specific aspects of physicality that cannot be fully simulated in the digital medium. This established a feedback loop for not only understanding material behaviours and properties but also robotically deposit material in order to create an informed material architecture.

informed design
robotic 3Dprinting
porosity
material architecture
material behavior

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b60c78f-e7f4-4299-b537-2f43ba07e56a

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26378-6_27

Springer

Campus only

978-3-319-26376-2

Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2016

ROB|ARCH 2016, 2016-03-15 → 2016-03-19, Sydney, Australia

Institutional Repository

book chapter

© 2016 Sina Mostafavi, H.H. Bier