Robot Milling a huge foam part

KUKA Robot- Car Gearshift Handling

Fabricate

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes will include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities, the difficult gap that exists between digital modeling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts.


http://www.fabricate2011.org/

Francois Roche / Interviewed by Jeffrey Inaba and Benedict Clouette

http://www.new-territories.com/columbia%20interview.htm

New Territories

 

 

http://www.new-territories.com/blog/

Bone Structure

Bone Structure from Joakim Hoen on Vimeo.

Radiolara pavilion - the first printed building

In a small shed on an industrial park near Pisa is a machine that can print buildings. The machine itself looks like a prototype for the automotive industry. Four columns independently support a frame with a single armature on it. Driven by CAD software installed on a dust-covered computer terminal, the armature moves just millimetres above a pile of sand, expressing a magnesium-based solution from hundreds of nozzles on its lower side. It makes four passes. The layer dries and Enrico Dini recalibrates the armature frame. The system deposits the sand and then inorganic binding ink. The exercise is repeated. The millennia-long process of laying down sedimentary rock is accelerated into a day. A building emerges. This machine could be used to construct anything. Dini wants to build a cathedral with it. Or houses on the moon.

http://www.d-shape.com

http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/architecture/the-worlds-first-printed-building/