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Pasi Aalto

Fabrication centric design tools

assistant professor Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts

I am going to talk about a wall.

Fabrication Design Delivery

Todays Fabrication grossly simplified

Fabrication Centric Design Tools, made by fabricators and designers.

Fabrication Logic Design

Delivery Fabrication

Double curved wall with a light installation Public Art project in collaboration with Ljos AS

Strinda VGS, Trondheim

Finished by september 2013

73% 78% 87% 95%

27% 22% 13% 5%

17% product

83% waste

Original surface

Curves in

wood

All pieces for fabrication

Nested

Expensive, work intensive and not very bright.

Re-make: Lets start with fabrication.

1: Fabrication Design - make it cheap and fast.

2: Design Input - make it available.

Master curves

Density

Sheet width

End design

Nesting

G-code for CNC

Assembly coding

Structural model

3D Visualization

3: Design Outputs - what do we need?

2: Automate - make it live.

Prototype, 18mm plywood

Comparison

Machining time

Waste

Modeling time

Traditional

16 min

63 %

20 min

Parametric

8 min

19 %

2 min

1 Square meter

Renders

Work in progress...

We need to focus.

State of the art? Pavilions.

ICD / ITKE research pavillion 2011, stuttgart

Geometry Physical Code

Tomorrows products

BIM Dumb 3D Parametric

Tomorrows product descriptions

Plug-in

Parametric families Dynamo Python

GDL C#

Grasshopper C & VB Python

Ruby

Why couldn’t Revit generate the data needed to make all the parts?

Fabricator Revit Machine

Fab Input User input Make it


corners &

window

freeform wall

element

thickness &

tech


4 points

freeform floor

element load calc


room geometry

optimal paneling

acoustics calculation

Not doable? Not in Excel.

What wood?

That additive, easily available, machining friendly and renewable wood.

More possibilities - without sacrificing production.

Interested?

Pasi Aalto assistant professor

Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts

pasi.aalto @ ntnu.no

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