Materially Informed Design to Robotic Production

A Robotic 3D Printing System for Informed Material Deposition

Book chapter (2016)

Authors

Sina Mostafavi Digital Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment
H.H. Bier Digital Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Digital Architecture (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2016 Sina Mostafavi, H.H. Bier
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26378-6_27
Porosity Material architecture Informed design Robotic 3Dprinting Material behavior
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Published Date

04-02-2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architectural Engineering +Technology

Research Group

Digital Architecture

Abstract

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.