Towards an identity Digital Fabrication in Latin America (English-Spanish) by Pablo C. Herrera

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Lecture at Symposium Visiting School: Politics of Fabrication Laboratory, sponsored by the Architectural Association. Valparaiso, Chile, May 13th 2011

Symposium Digital Fabricatio​n State of Art. Lisbon September 15-16, 2011

ISCTE Lisbon University institute
September 15-16, 2011
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Este simpósio permitirá reunir em Portugal, no ISCTE‐IUL, um conjunto de investigadores de referência internacional, no campo da Fabricação Digital e da Arquitectura. Procura-se desafiar os participantes neste simpósio estimulando a reflexão e o debate sobre o modo como a computação pode contribuir para melhorar o desenho e a performance da arquitectura; como a experiência e percepção do espaço podem enriquecer-se através da integração de tecnologias emergentes; como a forma pode ser gerada e evoluir parametricamente e, acima de tudo, como tirar partido da modelação digital para produzir objectos físicos diferenciados. 

Trata-se de um evento da maior relevância face aos novos desafios tecnológicos e de ensino da Arquitectura em Portugal. Com este simpósio

pretende-se indicar e partilhar novas metodologias de trabalho, linhas de investigação e profissionalização. O simpósio será complementado por um Workshop sobre fabricação digital onde será possível experimentar algumas das tecnologias abordadas durante as conferências.

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This symposium will bring together in Portugal, ISCTE‐IUL, a set of internationally renowned investigators in the field of Digital Fabrication and Architecture. We challenge participants in this symposium to question and reflect on how the exploitation of computing can improve the design and performance of architecture; how the experience and perception of space can be enriched through the integration of emerging technologies; how shape can be parametrically generated and evolve and, above all, how to take advantage of digital modeling to produce different physical objects. This event is of great relevance in view of the new technological challenges and the teaching of Architecture in Portugal. With this event we aim to underline and share new conceptual and research methodologies as well as new career opportunities. The symposium will be followed by a Workshop on Digital Manufacturing where the participants can experience some of the technologies addressed to in the lectures.
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FAB LAB Lima Conversatorio Abierto

FabLab Lima, Conversatorio Abierto, Lima, Perú.
Cada LUNES de Octubre 11a Diciembre 13, 10:00 a 12:00 hrs.
Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería.
Estacion UNI del Metropolitano. Registro y mas información

• 11 Oct; Máquinas que se autoreplican :: Self reproducing machines
• 18 Oct; Diseño asistido por computadora :: Computer Aided Design
• 25 Oct; Control Electrónico : diseño y producción :: Electric Control: Design and Production
• 03 Nov; Máquinas controladas por computadoras :: Computer-Controlled machining
• 08 Nov; Programación embebida :: Embedded programming
• 15 Nov; Moldeo y fundición 3D :: 3D Molding and Casting
• 22 Nov; Escaneo e inpresión 3D :: 3D scanning and printing
• 29 Nov; Interfaz y programación aplicada :: Interface and application programming
• 06 Dic; Internet CERO :: Internet Zero
• 13 Dic; Tu máquina de Fabricación Personal :: Your Personal Fabrication Machine

Digital Fabrication 2010 / NIP 26

Dates: September 19 - September 23, 2010

Location: Austin, Texas
History

Prior to being spun off into a "stand-alone" collocated meeting, Digital Fabrication was a technical session within NIP. Held for the first time in 2005, it has been an annual conference ever since.

Scope

Digital Fabrication explores the potential of digital printing technologies with sessions on new applications and materials that go well beyond traditional printing. Digital fabrication techniques have been used for biomedical applications, as well as to produce MEMS and new electronic devices. Conference topics include 2D & 3D functional printing and micromachining; digital fabrication instrumentation; ink jet printing processes; laser patterning processes, direct-write, and integration in printing manufacturing lines; process materials and substrates for digital fabrication; nano-patterning and imprint technologies; prototyping technology; printed sensors, photovoltaic cells, lighting devices, biomaterials, architectural components and electronics and devices; and industrial and commercial digital fabrication.

Since 2005, Digital Fabrication has been held in conjunction with the NIP Conference.

• Conference Exhibitors
• Participate in Print Gallery
• Preliminary Program 
• Week-at-a-Glance 
• Download Registration Form 
• Register Now Online
• Download Venue/Hotel Information 
• Request to be put on mailing list for conference information

Autonomy of Architecture, the impact of file-to-factory on architectural practice

On the 11th of June, a conference will be hosted at the Protospace, which deals with how file-to-factory processes impact architectural practice.

Computational Architecture has a polarizing effect on architecture; on one hand the development of new design tools for architectural conception allow us to deal with more abstract design notions, on the other hand these designs are pushed beyond description, towards definition. Architects such as Kas Oosterhuis ( ONL /Hyperbody research group ), Fabian Schreurer ( designtoproduction) and Fabio Gramazio ( Gramazio & Kohler ) manage to fabricate from such a rigorous architectural definition. Fabian has been writing programs to generate NC code from which architectural elements are produced and in a similar way the members of theDFAB lab ( ran by Matthias Kohler and Fabio Gramazio ) produces the instructions for their brick laying robot. Philippe Morel ( partner in EZCT Architecture & Design Research ) will provide context of this important development in architecture with his lecture “Knowledge, Machines and Autonomy”.

Check out the posters for the event here and there.

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CAADRIA 2010 In the next revolution: Digital Building Kits

Materialising designs with digital fabrication
LAWRENCE SASS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
lsass@mit.edu

B. Dave, A. I. Li, N. Gu, H.-J. Park (eds.), New Frontiers: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia CAADRIA 2010, 545–553. ©2010, Association for Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong
Source: Cumincad

1. Introduction

A recent article in Wired Magazine entitled “The next Industrial Revolution” should be cause for concern for most people in design and manufacturing fields (Anderson, 2010). Fear of a revolution in manufacturing and design should follow the same concerns we once had over jobs and communication during the internet revolution. The fear is with good reason; so far the internet has shaken the foundation of news organisations and the traditional keepers of information. The United States has seen extermination of many local and international newspapers. Society now trusts information generated by nonexpert sources (blogs) as much as they do expert sources. In many design fields, in particular architecture, the internet has given rise to drafting and rendering industries that generate images and construction documents overnight. (...)

• Anderson, C. (2010)   Atoms are the new bits , Wired magazine, February
• Chen, Y (2008)   Computer-aided product design with performance-tailored mesostructures , Computer-aided design and applications, 5(1–4), 565–576
• Dolenc, A., and Makela, I. (1994)   Slicing procedures for layered manufacturing techniques , Computer-aided design, 26(2), February
• Genc, S., Messler R., and G., Gabriele (1998)   A systematic approach to integral snap-fit attachment design, Research in engineering design, 10(2), 84–93
• Gershenfeld, N. (2005)   FAB the coming revolution on your desktop: from personal computers to personal fabrication, , Basic Books
• Messler, R. (2006)   Integral mechanical attachment: a resurgence of the oldest method of joining , Butterworth-Heinemann, Burlington, Mass
• Palladio A. (1965)   The four books on architecture , translation by Isaac Ware in 1738, Dover Publications, New York
• Sass, L. (2007)   A physical design grammar: A production system for layered manufacturing machines, Automation in construction, 17(6), 691–704

Algorithms and Digital Fabrication

Conferencia realizada en Escuelab, Lima, el 25 de Noviembre del 2009.
Presentation: Pablo C. Herrera

Fabricación Digital, Lima, Perú

Fab Lab Lima invita al

Conversatorio sobre Fabricación Digital y tecnologias CAD/CAM

miércoles 25 de noviembre 18:30

Escuelab, calle Belen 1044 piso 5, Plaza San Martin, Lima-Peru.

:: Pablo C. Herrera - Algoritmos y Fabricación Digital

:: Luis Odiaga - Pensamiento Generativo-Materialista

:: Laboratorio Urbano de Lima - Espacio Leñoso Digital

SPAN lecture on the design and construction of the Austrian Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010

Monday, November 2, 2009. 16:30pm - 17:30pm

Location: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

Street: Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2

City/Town: Vienna, Austria

Prof. Matias del Campo :: SPAN

Topology is the main driving force of the design of the Austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. It emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

The main qualities for the project formed the mainframe of the topological surface. The software output consisted of an extensive array of subtly varying surface conditions. According to their performative behavior the population of over one hundred individual entities where scrutinized for their fitness according to different criteria, such as the potential to fulfill the program, the performance as structural entity and the affect generated by its appearance. This process reduced potential candidates to a very small number. Finally this candidates ran trough a series of algorithms (various remeshings, subdivisions, optimizing the size of the spatial pockets etc.) which eliminated all candidates but one.

This technique can be described as an evolutionary process driven by a series of intensive forces, such as the specific compartmentisation of the pouches, the loadbearing qualities of curvilinear conditions and the allover sensual experience of the space. The numerous explorations and investigations of SPAN into the nature of topological bodies, throughout the recent years, served as basis for the design process. One of the results of these investigations was a series of models only dedicated to seamless, continuous circulations within architectural bodies and apertures in complex curved geometries. These two fundamental architectural conditions, opening and circulation, are discussed in the project of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 in an alternative way.

The lecture describes the design process of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, as well as the construction method. The lecture depicts the advanced fabrication methods involved in the construction of the Project, such as the use of simulation softwares, building information modeling and CNC fabrication.

BIM CON ! FAB 2009

The Third Annual USC Symposium on

Building Information Modeling + Construction and Fabrication

SGM 123 :: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 map of campus

July 30-31, 2009

The USC School of Architecture (Prof. Karen Kensek) and Virterbi School of Engineering (Prof. Burcin Becerik Gerber) are hosting a BIM + SYMPOSIUM on Thursday and Friday, July 30-31, 2009. Building on the success of last year’s symposium on BIM and Sustainable Design, there will be a half-day of individual presentations by software representatives followed by a half day then a full day of case studies presentations by architects, engineers, contractors, and BIM consultants describing the critical juncture between BIM and construction including fabrication.

Information :: Schedule