Timber Curtain: Designing with material capabilities

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Abstract

Timber Curtain explores relations between digital precision and material indeterminacy. It is an installation engaging spatially through its presence as a 1:1 architectural component as well as it is exploring novel technologies in the architectural design process from the very beginning of the generative phase to fabrication of the artefact. Brought together by various conceptual and structural elements the Timber Curtain forms a 4.5 x 2.5 x 0.5 m construct of assembled wood components, digitally crafted through advanced production techniques. Concerned with materiality and processing of the wood an associative digital model that could gather and compute in put from material behaviour and out put manufacturing data was scripted. This method enables material capacity to be pushed to the limit of its performance allowing novel sensuous and structural qualities to emerge. The method is developed with use of pinewood, processed with a 5-axis CNC router. The digital process generation and simulation is implemented with Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper and GHPython, and AlphaCAM was used for preparing the CNC-milling.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date20 Sept 2015
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 20 Sept 2015
EventMaking Research │ Researching Making - Adapt-r / Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark
Duration: 10 Sept 201512 Sept 2015

Conference

ConferenceMaking Research │ Researching Making
LocationAdapt-r / Aarhus School of Architecture
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAarhus
Period10/09/201512/09/2015

Keywords

  • Digital fabrication
  • Mass customisation
  • Parametric design
  • Robotic fabrication
  • Material capability
  • Augmented material

Artistic research

  • Yes

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