AW1 exhibición @ La casa IDA, Lima 29/05

Photo: Luis Odiaga
Old Post

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.

Source

AW1 exhibición @ La casa IDA, Lima

Mesas Paramétricas Diseñadas y optimizadas en Varsovia por Krystian Kwiecinski con Rhino y Grasshopper; Fabricada y Personalizada en Lima por Luis F. Odiaga y Sebastian Guerra con el uso de una Router (Milling Machine de 2 1/2 ejes) y Contrachapado de 25mm, Documentación del Proceso desde su diseño en Varsovia hasta su alojamiento en La sede Central de la Asociación Cultural la Casa Ida.

Rostros Tridimensionales diseñados con Rhino y Grasshopper, Fabricados y ensamblados por los Participantes del AW1 con el uso de una Router (Milling Machine de 2 1/2 ejes) y MDF de 5.5mm.

Árbol ARTificial diseñado en partes ensamblables por los Participantes del AW1, optimizado y fabricado por el equipo de ARTificial con el uso de una Router (Milling Machine de 2 1/2 ejes) y MDF de 5.5mm.

Exhibición Permanente

Central La Casa Ida desde las 18:00 horas.

AFORO LIMITADO INGRESO CON INVITACION IMPRESA.


Start Time: Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
End Time: Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 2:30am

Sabado 22 Mayo :: Sabado 29 Mayo :: Sabado 5 Junio :: Sabado 12 Junio


Lugar: Nicolás de Piérola (La Colmena) 767 TERCER PISO - Lima Centro.
(A una cuadra y media de la Plaza San Martín, a espalda del Hotel Bolivar)

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

What is a fablab in three words by Sussana Tesconi

Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs (2006)

TED2006 Filmed Feb26 2006, Posted Feb 2007

FABLabs, Digital Fabrication Lab, Fabricación Digital

• Afghanistan (FABLAB Afghanistan)
• South Africa (AMTS FabLabs)
• The Future of Personal Fabrication (Next Fab)
• FabLab ABQ

South America

• Brazil LAPAC (2007) (.edu)
• Chile, Fabricación Digital en Arquitectura (2008) (.edu)
• Chile gt_2P (.com)
• Chile UC (Ensamble Digital) (2007) (.edu)
• Colombia (Unalab Medellin) (2010) (.edu)
• Lima (FabLab Lima) (2010) (.org)

United States

• FabLabDC
• Haiti FabLab Fund
• (FabLab Network)
• RhinoFabLab Community
• BranchOff FabLab Atlanta
• Columbia University (Avery Digital Fabrication Lab)
• Carnegie Mellon (dFab)
• University of Michigan (Digital Fab Lab) Handbook
• Cal Poly (Digital Fabrication Laboratory)
• USF (Digital Fabrication Laboratory)
• The University of Arizona (Digital Fabrication Lab)
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale (DFL)
• Savannha College of Art and Design (Fab.Lab SCAD)
• Harvard GSD (Fabrication Laboratory)
• Kendall College of Art and Design (Digital Fabrication Lab)
• University of Florida (A2 Fab Lab)
• Fab Lab San Diego
• Tulane School of Architecture (Fabrication Center)
• MIT Digital Design Fabrication Group
• MIT 
• Ball State University (I.M.A.D.E Institute for Digital Fabrication)
• Penn Design (Fabrication Lab)
• University of Maryland (FabLab)
• Maryland NanoCenter (FabLab)
• The Catholic University of America (Fabrication Lab)
• Northampton Community College (The Fab Lab)

Europe

• AA School of Architecture (Digital Prototyping Lab)
• Manchester (FabLab Manchester)
• Tooling
• Hackitectura (FabLab/Beta)
• Universidad de Sevilla (Fab_Lab)

Australia

• University of Melbourne (FabLab)

South America users

• Argentina (Fabrinco)
• Perú (MAXX prototipos)
• Perú (Diversidad Publicitaria)

FabLabLima by Beno Juarez

FabLab List by fab.cba.mit.edu

Current:
Afghanistan

• Jalalabad (Taj Mahal Guest House)

Costa Rica

• Cartago (Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica)

Columbia (South America)

• Medellin (Fab Lab Medellin)

Germany

• Aachen (RWTH FabLab)

Ghana

• Takoradi (Takoradi Technical Institute)

Iceland

• Vestmannaeyjar (Innovation Center Iceland)

India

• Ahmedabad (National Innovation Foundation)
• Delhi (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology )
• Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology)
• Pabal (Vigyan Ashram)
• Pune (College of Engineering, Pune)

Kenya

• Kisumu (ARO FabLab)
• Nairobi (University of Nairobi)

Netherlands

• Amsterdam (Waag Society)
• Eindhoven (FreeFormFab)
• Groningen (FabLab Groningen)
• The Hague (CabFabLab)
• Utrecht (Protospace)

Norway

• Hoylandet (Hoylandet Kommune)
• Lyngen (Solvik Gard)

Russia

• Moscow (MHTCh FabLab)

Spain

• Barcelona (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia)
• Bermeo (DenokInn)

South Africa

• Bloemfontein (Central University of Technology)
• Cape Town (Cape Craft and Design Institute)
• Kimberly (Northern Cape Higher Education Institute)
• Potchestroom (North West University)
• Soshanguve (Bright Youth Council)

Switzerland

• Luzern (FabLab Switzerland)

United Kingdom

• Manchester (Manufacturing Institute FabLab)

United States

• Palo Alto, CA (Stanford Learning FabLab)
• San Diego, CA (Heads on Fire)
• Chicago, IL (Museum of Science and Industry)
• Urbana-Champaign, IL (University of Illinois FabLab)
• Boston, MA (South End Technology Center)
• Flint, Michigan (Mott Community College Fab Lab)
• White Bear Lake, Minnesota (Century Community and Technical College)
• South Bronx, NY (Sustainable South Bronx)
• Cleveland, OH (MS2STEM High School, Great Lakes Science Center)
• East Cleveland, OH (MS2STEM High School, GE Nela Park)
• Elyria, OH (Lorain County Community College)
• Mobile fab lab
• Providence, Rhode Island (AS220)
• Appleton, Wisconsin (Fox Valley Technical College)
• Menomonie; Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

Planned:

Belgium: Louvaine; China: Beijing :: Guangdong; Czech Republic: Hradec Kralove; Columbia (South America): Medellin #2; Ethiopia; France; Grenoble; Germany: Altdorf bei Nurnberg; Iceland: Akranes :: Sauoarkrokur; India: Delhi :: Durgapur; Indonesia: Yogyakarta; Kenya: Nairobi #2; Netherlands: Enscede :: Maastricht :: Rotterdam: Texel; Portugal: Lisbon; Russia: St. Petersburg; Suriname: Paramaribo; South Africa: Mobile fab lab; Spain: Cadiz; Sweden: Malmo; United States: Cleveland :: Dayton :: Deer Isle :: Detroit :: Kansas City :: Menomonie :: Miami :: Raleigh-Durham :: Tulsa (more to come)

Fabritectura Colombia

"Detectando el  vacio académico latente en métodos de proyectación e inclusión de nuevas tecnologías  digitales en el desarrollo profesional, se busca con esta monografía sintetizar y acercar de manera rápida y a modo de panorama  a los métodos usados en la arquitectura contemporánea y su complementación con el campo analógico, bajo la idea de que toda especulación de la forma y su uso  para la posterior materialización es válida, siempre y cuando permita el carácter reflexivo y potencialice la toma de mejores decisiones." Fabritectura Colombia Beta, Abril , 2010. (Arquitectura Paramétrica: hacia el diseño y la fabricación digital)

Welcome fablab unalmed (Abril, 2010)

FabLAB UNALMED (Medellín, Colombia) es un espacio abierto de discusion y colaboración online de temas relacionados con fabricación digital y arquitectura contemporánea enfocada a algoritmos y la programación en software para la exploración de la forma.

Solar Decathlon 2010 (Team Brazil)

Casa Solar Flex Web Site

Consorcio Brasil - CASA SOLAR FLEX from SD Europe on Vimeo.

Solar Decathlon 2010 (Team IaaC, Europe)

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña (IaaC) Web Site

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña - FABLABHOUSE from SD Europe on Vimeo.

Solar Decathlon 2010 (Team Virginia Tech, USA)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Web Site

Solar Decathlon Madrid Junio 2010

Equipos Latinoamérica

• Consórcio Brasil
• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Equipos Europa

• Arts et Métiers Paris Tech
• Fachhochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
• Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
• Ecole National Supérieure d?architecture de Grenoble
• Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña
• University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim
• Tianjin University
• Universidad de Sevilla
• Universidad de Valladolid
• University of Nottingham
• University of Florida
• Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
• Tongji University

Equipos Estados Unidos

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Historia de la competición / History of the competition

Solar Decathlon (U.S. Department of Energy) se ha celebrado en los siguiente años:

• 2002; 1st Universidad de Colorado at Boulder, 2nd Universidad de Virginia, 3rd Universidad de Auburn.
• 2005; 1st Universidad de Colorado at Boulder, 2nd Cornell University, 3rd Universidad Politécnica de California.
• 2007; 1st Technische Universität Darmstadt (Alemania), 2nd Universidad de Maryland, 3rd Universidad de Santa Clara.
• 2009 . 1st Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2nd University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3rd Santa Clara University+California College of the Arts

Todas las ediciones americanas de Solar Decathlon se han celebrado en el National Mall de Washington, con gran impacto mediático y social, y cientos de miles de visitantes.

The first edition of the Solar Decathlon was held in 2002; the second in 2005; the third in 2007. The most recent competition was held in October 2009 and 20 teams representing as many universities from the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Germany and Spain competed.

En 2010, por primera vez SD se celebra fuera de Estados Unidos. La primera edición de Solar Decathlon Europe tendrá lugar en Madrid en junio de este año. Fruto del acuerdo alcanzado entre las administraciones de EEUU y España, Solar Decathlon celebrará sus ediciones americanas en los años impares (la próxima en 2011) y sus competiciones europeas en los años pares.

All of the competitions that have been held so far have been located in the National Mall in Washington D.C., and have resulted in great media and social impact, with more than 100,000 visitors attending the competition.

Introducción

Tras un proceso de selección, Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 ha escogido a 20 universidades de reconocido prestigio de Europa, América y Asia para participar en la competición que se celebrará en Madrid en junio de 2010.

Las universidades participantes se componen de equipos de trabajo multidisciplinares. La competición Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 brinda a los estudiantes una experiencia de aprendizaje única, pasando de la teoría a la práctica en un campo de pruebas inigualable. Serán desafiados a utilizar su dinamismo y capacidad de innovación para diseñar y construir un vivienda de vivienda autosuficiente energéticamente, teniendo presente el equilibrio entre los aspectos arquitectónicos, de ingeniería, de confort y funcionamiento.

FabLab en Lima by Rafael Lanfranco

Semana Económica: Tecnología por Rafael Lanfranco

"Los "fab labs" son laboratorios de arquitectura y diseño, -mini fábricas- para el desarrollo de objetos que van desde micro-circuitos o piezas de maquinaria, hasta chasises de carros o incluso casas enteras. Valiéndose de "impresoras" en 3D de diferentes tamaños, fabrican a costos accesibles piezas que no hace muchos años habrían requerido pedidos industriales.  Más aún, el mayor acceso a estas impresoras por individuos y pequeños negocios, podrían generar en un futuro próximo todo un mercado de objetos hechos a pedido para mercados nicho dentro y fuera del Perú."

"Ya exiten numerosos fab labs en Estados Unidos, Europa, Asia y Africa, y para nuestra sorpresa, el primero en Sudamérica se creará en nuestro país. Por ello, SEMANAeconomica.com conversó con Vicente Guellart, arquitecto catalán y fundador del fab lab Barcelona, quien está de visita por Lima para montar el laboratorio peruano en cooperación con la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, el Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), el Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña y la AECID de España. Se espare que entre en operaciones en el último trimestre del año."

¿Qué es el fab lab y qué aplicaciones tiene? (04:57 min)


¿Porqué fab lab Perú? (04:56 min)

In The Next Industrial Revolution: Atoms Are the New Bits

WIRED, Feb 2010

Gabriel Ochoa: FabLab Medellin (Spanish)

Part 2 Part 3 :: FabLab Medellin by Verónica Álvarez + Gabriel Ochoa

Aloblums by Marc Fornes (August, 2009)

Design THEVERYMANY
Design Team: Marc Fornes :: Skylar Tibbits :: Mathew Staudt

Collective Bangs.Marcela Godoy, Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea, Linda Schilling
GATech/UTFSM: Prof. Tristan Al Haddad.

Assembly team. Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Pablo Silva, Francisco Calvo, Francisco Lara, Oscar Terrazas, Gabriel Santander, Oscar Ignacio Contreras, Hernán Castro, Rodrigo Ramírez, Gonzalo Andrade, Andre Geoffroy, Matias Carrera, Victor Bunster Milnes (UC), Drago Vodanovic (U. (UCh | MArch AADRL), Claudio Troncoso Rojas (UChile), Tomas Jacobsen (UCh |MArch AADRL), Natalija Boljsakov (bOOm), Brian Miller (bOOm), Miguel Aravena (UTFSM), Eduardo Hirose (UTFSM), Juan Pablo Klempau (UDEC), Pablo Silva (UTFSM), Manuel Díaz (UDLA), Camila Rock De Luigi (U. Talc).

Time Lapse and Postproduction: Pablo C. Herrera Valparaiso, Chile 13-14 de Agosto, 2009

Testing Dimension 1200 in Lima

Pruebas realizadas en Lima, Perú en el mes de Mayo del 2009.
Timelapse and video by Pablo C: Herrera

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

LaN Digital Fabrication and Rhino Workshop

San Juan, Puerto Rico

November 30- December 4, 2009

LaN invites professionals and students alike to attend a 5 day workshop covering Digital Fabrication in Architecture: from intro to advanced. Workshop will instruct on the use of RHINO as it pertains to digital fabrication (ie: rationalizing complex surfaces, preparing 3-d surfaces for various 2-d fabrication methods, creating solid models in Rhino for use with 3-d printing technology, among others). Valuable plug-ins (i.e. RhinoCAM & Grasshopper) will also be introduced and explored. Students will leave with a comprehensive understanding of Rhino and a thorough understanding of current practices in digital fabrication.

More information here

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.

FAB5: The Fifth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication

This event will gather both field practitioners and laboratory researchers for a week of hands-on workshops and a one day symposium on the principles and applications of digital fabrication. It is being hosted in Pune, India, from August 16-21, 2009, by a team including the College of Engineering, Pune, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Vigyan Ashram, the National Innovation Foundation, the Fab Foundation, the MIT-India Program, and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), with support from DSIR and NSF. FAB5 follows earlier events in the US, South Africa, and Norway; there's background on fab labs and digital fabrication here.
Original source.

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

SIGGRAPH 2009: Generative Fabrication

SIGGRAPH regresa a New Orleans despues de 9 años. En aquella oportunidad (2000) pude ver el trabajo de Kostas Terzidis en ese entonces profesor de UCLA, titulado MorphZhapes (+). Ahora, continuado con la tradición empezada el año pasado (+) se presenta bajo la curaduría de Makai Smith como parte del Design and Computation Gallery la selección bajo el título Generative Fabrication. Hace casi un año, Daniel Cardoso y Larry Sass ambos del MIT, presentaron "Generative Fabrication: Discussing Creativity in the Age of Digital Machinery", ponencia en el Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition 2008 y publicado por Springer (sólo páginas 713-732). Las investigaciones bajo el concepto Generative Fabrication, se han venido realizando dentro del grupo de investigación del Digital Design Fabrication Group de MIT e incluído dentro del curso 4.510 Digital Design Fabrication (el 4.510 toma su origen del 4.212 Design Fabrication impartido desde el 2003 y donde Generative Fabrication ya era parte de la cátedra).

La selección incluye: Janet Echelman and Buro Happold Consulting Engineers :: Greg Lynn/FORM and Kreysler & Associates :: Fabian Scheurer designtoproduction :: Chris Lasch & Benjamin Aranda :: Materialise.MGX :: Lionel Theodore Dean :: Sabin+Jones LabStudio :: Ferda Kolatan+Erich Schoenenberger su11 architecture+design

New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau

1520 Sugar Bowl Drive

New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 USA

Rooms 356-357

Monday, 3 August to Thursday, 6 August 9 am - 6 pm

Friday, 7 August 9 am - noon
More information

PAPress: Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

Lisa Iwamoto
ISBN 9781568987903 (published 8/1/2009)
A PAPress publication; Series Architecture Briefs

From the publisher
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projects featuring complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms.
The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold.
Digital Fabrications presents projects designed and built by emerging practices that pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale with a do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects include AEDS/Ammar Eloueini, Atelier Manferdini, Brennan Buck, MOS, Office dA, Florencia Pita/MOD, Mafoombey, URBAN A+O (The bone wall), SYSTEMarchitects, Design 306, Andrew Kudless/Matsys, Iwamoto Scott, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT, Thom Faulders Architecture, Jeremy Ficca, SPAN (Gradient Scale + Housing in Vienna), GNUFORM, Heather Roberge, PATTERNS, Ruy Klein, servo and Alan Dempsey+Alvin Huang.

Buy: Amazon, PAPress

Forthcoming: AA Agendas 8

Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion
Edited by Yusuke Obuchi and Alan Dempsey

Created as part of the 2008 tenth anniversary celebrations of the Design Research Laboratory, the AA DRL TEN Pavilion is one of those built projects that push the conventions in architecture and structural engineering as well as the building materials industry.

AA Publications

Becas Fab Academy Perú

• Jueves 18 a las 13:30 hrs
  Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas UPC
  Aula Magna
  Prolongación Primavera 2390, Monterrico.
• Viernes 19 a las 11:00 hrs
  Corriente Alterna
  Sala de proyecciones
  Avenida de la Aviación 500, Miraflores.
• Viernes 19 a las 15:00 hrs
  Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru PUCP
  Aula 201 Pabellon de Arquitectura
  Avenida Universitaria 1801, San Miguel.

La conferencia estará a cargo de Tomas Díez, Manager del FABlab Barcelona y presentada por Luis Odiaga enlace de FABlab en Perú.
Fecha límite para enviar postulaciones 7 de Julio, 2009

Fab Lab Barcelona Scholarships 2009-2010

Scholarships Fab Academy:

• SCHOLARSHIPS PERU (deadline July 7th)
• SCHOLARSHIPS ETHIOPIA (deadline June 21st)

Fab Lab Barcelona is launching a competition to grant two scholarships for students from Ethiopia to participate in the Fab Academy educational program. The competition is been established with the collaboration of Spanish Agency of International Development Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, AECID).
The Fab Academy is a newly created platform, driven by the international network of Fab Labs, which promotes the training of people in the principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication.
The program will be developed in Barcelona from September 2009 to May 2010 at the headquarters of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Students will participate in an international program in which they will learn multiple techniques in digital fabrication.
After the finalization of the program, Fab Lab Bcn in collaboration with AECID will assist in the installation of a Fab Lab in the participant´s city of origin to encourage the invention and creation of local platforms for social and economical development.
This platform will pursue the promotion of economic projects using the Internet as the main tool for networking.
REQUIREMENTS

1. Be a citizen from Ethiopia or Peru.
2. English language.
3. Must be 18 to 45 years old.
4. Ability to develop and work on group projects
5. Basic computer skills

Documentation to be sent to Fab Lab Bcn: Download application form: aecid_application
Please full fill application form and send it back to email with the following documentation:

• CV
• Academic Background
• Reference to previous works (written, images, videos, etc)
• A new proposal of creation: Philosophical, Economical, Technological, Visual, Musical, etc.

THE SCHOLARSHIP
The scholarship will be 25,000 Euros per person, and it will be managed by IaaC.
Including: Tuition fee :: Handling :: Accomodation :: Materials :: Air tickets
SELECTION PROCESS

Must send their applications to: email from May 21st until June 21st (July 7th for Peru applicants).

Call for Abstracts: File to factory

International Symposium File to factory

The design and fabrication of innovative forms in a continuum
CMA (Centre for Mediterranean Architecture),

Chania, Crete, Greece 3 and 4 September 2009

Please, send your 500 word abstract to

mvoyat@arch.auth.gr no later than 26 june, 2009

The symposium will focus on the following themes:
1.Digital Fabrication and File-to-Factory Production in Schools of Architecture:
What teaching protocols have you established in your school? What are the , teaching methodologies you implement?

• Presentation of case studies and good f2f practice.
• Necessary infrastructure, machinery, equipment for working on f2f. Possibilities, limitations, capacities
• Necessary software to operate f2f•Student competences necessary to work on f2f in the lab
• Teacher competences necessary to work on f2f in the lab
• Computer Technician competences necessary to work on f2f in the lab•Equipment Technician competences necessary to work on f2f in the school model shop/ workshop
  

2. Digital Fabrication and File-to-Factory Production, Mass Customisation in architectural practice:

• What work or communication protocols have you established in your practice?
• Presentation of case studies and good f2f practice.
• Necessary infrastructure, machinery, equipment for working on f2f. Possibilities, limitations, capacities•Necessary software to operate f2f
• Architect’s competences necessary to work on f2f in the office.

3.Digital Fabrication and File-to-Factory Production in the Building Industry:

• What work or communication protocols have you established in your enterprise?
• Presentation of case studies and good f2f practice.
• Necessary infrastructure, machinery, equipment for working on f2f. Possibilities, limitations, capacities
• Necessary software to operate f2f
• Employee’s competences necessary to work on f2f in the lab

Kolarevich + Klinger: Manufacturing Material Effects

No es extraño que Branko Kolarevic y Kevin Klinger se hallan reunido para publicar Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. Impreso en dos presentaciones por Routledge del grupo Taylor & Francis, aún en lista de espera y próximo a salir este 30 de setiembre, el libro es el esperado resultado del Simposio Internacional: MMFX SYMPOSIUM que organizaron entre el 6 al 7 de Abril del 2007 en Indiana, bajo el patrocinio del Institute for Digital Fabrication de Ball State University donde ambos se encargaron de la realización y convocatoria.
La lista de conferencistas que forman este volumen son:

• Material Practices: Chris Sharples/SHoP (New York, USA)
• Interdisciplinary Relationships: Innovation Through Collaboration: Ruben Suare / 3form (Salt Lake City, USA)
• Architect/Robot/Fabricator/Craft-worker: Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang Architects (Chicago, USA)
• Cut to Fit: Frank Barkow / Barkow Leibinger (Berlin, Germany)
• Thinking Versus Making: Remediating Design: Practice in the Age of Digital Representation
• Material Effects: A Fabricator’s Viewpoint: William Zahner / Zahner Architectural Metals (Kansas City, USA) + Phil Bernstein / Autodesk & Yale University (New Haven, USA)
• Towards a Digital Materiality: Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler / Gramazio/Kohler & ETH (Zurich, Switz.)
• Computation and Materiality: Marta Malé-Alemany & José Pedro Sousa / ReD (Barcelona, Spain & Porto, Portugal)
• The Possibility of (an) Architecture: Mark Goulthorpe / dECOi & MIT (Cambridge, USA)
• Ambient and Augmented Architectures: Parametric Pedagogies in the Electrified Studio Brett Steele / Architectural Association (London, UK)
• Different Differences: Donald Bates / LAB Architecture (Melbourne, Australia / London, UK)
• Opportunistic Architecture: David J. Lewis / LTL Architects (New York, USA)
• Translucencies: David Erdman / servo (Los Angeles, USA)
• Integral Formation and Materialization: Computational Form and Material Gestalt: Achim Menges / Ocean North & AA (London, UK)
• Associative Design in Fabrication: Makai Smith / Bentley Systems (Exton, USA)
• Material Experiments in Design and Build Projects: Mick Eekhout / Octatube & TU Delft (Delft, Netherlands)
• Custom CAD/CAM: Pushing the boundaries of CNC fabrication: Fabian Scheurer / designtoproduction & ETH (Zurich, Switzerland)
• OMAterial: Shohei Shigematsu / OMA-AMO (New York, USA)
• Collaborations: Marc Simmons / Front Inc. (New York, USA)

Un resumen de las conferencas fue publicado para esa ocasión e formato PDF.
El índice del contenido de esta publicación (Table of Contents) es la siguiente:
1. Introduction 2. Retooling Architecture 3. Ambient and Augmented Architectures: Parametric Pedagogies in the Electrified Studio 4. The Craft Of Digital Making 5. Architect / Robot / Fabricator/ Craft-worker 6. OMAterial 7. Different Differences 8. Opportunistic Architecture 9. Translucencies 10. The Possibility of (an) Architecture 11. Computation and Materiality 12. Integral Formation and Materialization: Computational Form and Material Gestalt 13. Towards a Digital Materiality 14. Material Practices 15. Associative Design in Fabrication 16. Custom CAD/CAM: Pushing the boundaries of CNC fabrication 17. Cut to Fit 18. Material Effects: A Fabricator’s Viewpoint 19. Interdisciplinary Relationships: Innovation Through Collaboration 20. Collaborations 21. Material Experiments in Design and Build Projects 22. Thinking Versus Making: Remediating Design Practice in the Age of Digital Representation.

Structural Oscillations 2008

Instalación en la XI Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia como una contribución suiza de Gramazio & Kohler del Departamento de Arquitectura de la ETH de Zurich. Mas información y detalles desde aquí.

Home Delivery: The project journal

El diario de los projectos que seran presentados en el MoMA en julio próximo puede ser visitado desde Home Delivery: the project journal.

Prototypen: Design to Production

Se han publicado los resultados del taller Design to production. Imágenes.

Stuttgart: Design to Production

Programada para el 15 de Abril. Más información.

Prefab Futures: New Agendas for Mass Customization in Architecture

Healy House, Resolution 4

Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Institute
School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York
Jueves 3 de Abril, 2008
Evento en el que se inaugura el Kullman Center, el centro de investigaciones de la Escuela de Arquitectura del Pratt Institute en New York en el que se investigará el desarrollo de la construcción modular y técnicas de manufactura industrial en arquitectura.
En el simposio, se presentará la historia de la prefabricación, técnicas contemporáneas y emergentes así como el potencial social y sostenible de las tecnologías de prefabricación. Agenda (PDF 627Kb).

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling en el MoMA

Exhibición de Julio 20 a Octubre 20, 2008
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
En Enero del 2008 fueron seleccionados 5 proyectos de un total de 400 propuestas, por un jurado del MoMA. El objetivo, diseñar viviendas prefabricadas en el lote 53West contiguo al MoMA con un presupuesto de US$175.000 para cada uno. Los seleccionados fueron:

Kieran Timberlake Associates, Philadelphia: Cellophane House;
Larry Sass, Cambridge: yourHOUSE for New Orleans; (2880 Kb)
Douglas Gauthier y Jeremy Edmiston, New York: Burst 008;
Oskar Leo Kaufmann y Albert Rüf, Austria: System3 House;
Richard Horden de Horden Cherry Lee, Munich: Micro Compact Home.
En 4 meses mas, no sólo en el lote de arriba se verá el proceso de como se hicieron estos proyectos, funcionamiento y distribución de los mismos, en el sexto piso de la galeria del MoMA se incluirá la documentación de 58 proyectos más en el que se examina este fenómeno en el contexto de la arquitectura moderna, con documentales y proyectos desde 1833 al presente en el que se incluye a Kisho Kurokawa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Wes Jones, Jean Prouvel, Namba Kazuhiko, Konrad Wachsmann, Richard Rogers, así como algunas iniciativas de Thomas Edison y Buckminster Fuller. Cooper Robertson Partners, el estudio newyorkino encargado del MoMAQNS será quien fabricará los proyectos. Este mes, el MoMA habilitará la exhibición en línea documentando el proceso. Este atento al enlace.

Design and the Elastic Mind en el MoMA

Exhibición de Febrero 24 a Mayo 12, 2008
Fotografía de Damian O'Sullivan
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Este mes se acaba de publicar el catálogo y la exhibición en linea de Design and the Elastic Mind.
MIT takes Manhattan es el titulo que usa esta semana Sara H. Wrigth en MIT News, a propósito de la exhibición, con proyectos de Neri Oxman (Technical Chair en ACADIA 2008), del profesor Larry Sass (Director del Digital Design Fabrication Group del MIT), de Carlo Ratti (Director del Laboratorio SENSEable City de MIT), y otros proyectos provenientes del MIT School of Architecture and Planning y del Media Lab and the Design Lab de MIT. Aquí, la lista completa, asi como el enlace a cada uno de los participantes. Mas detalles sobre esta exhibición.

Digital Master Builders

Technology Review, Enero/Febrero 2008. The Building, Digitally Remastered es el titulo del ensayo fotográfico de 8 proyectos desarrollados entre 1996 y el 2006 en base a las diferentes técnicas y avances en diseño y manufactura. Para tener acceso al articulo completo e imagenes sólo tiene que registrarse como usuario.

Este mes en la pagina de Technology Review, Upland Productions produce bajo el título Digital Master Builders como el modelado por computadora ha revolucionado el diseño y la construcción con entrevistas a Kimo Giggs y Tim Eliassen.

Impresoras 3D

Three Dimensional Printing (3DP) es la tecnología desarrollada en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology para la producción rápida y flexible de componentes, prototipos, piezas finales y objetos obtenidos directamente de un modelo CAD. El proceso ha sido desarrollado para trabajar casi sobre cualquier tipo de material, en los que se incluyen los metales, la cerámica, polímeros y resinas. En la actualidad ha sido licenciada a cinco compañias norteamericas y una japonesa a través de la MIT Technology Licensing Office. Pero su difusión comercial empezó en 1994 gracias a que Marina Hatsopoulos negoció la patente y fundó Z corporation, productos que ahora son parte de las principales escuelas de arquitectura en el mundo.
En el 2002 Larry Sass, actual Director del Digital Design Fabrication Group del MIT desarrolla el Advanced Course en Digital Fabrication usando una 3DP. Hoy en el MIT los cursos incluyen, el 4.501 Architectural Construction and Computation, el 4.510 Digital Design Fabrication y el 4.511 Digital Design Fabrication Workshop. Arriba detalles del proyecto Computable Composite Components y el trabajo de Yuliya Betcheva (MIT, 2006).
Entre el 2002 y el 2003 Dan Schodek y Kimo Griggs desarrollan en la Graduate School of Design de Harvard los cursos 6319 CAD/CAM: Digital Design Environments hoy llamado CAD/CAM II: Design Development in Digital Environments y el 6320 CAD/CAM Fabrication Environments que hoy se conoce como Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing III. La exploración intensiva y el análisis de estos procesos tuvieron como contexto la construcción del Ray and Maria Stata Center de Frank Gehry. Arriba detalles de los prototipos en la exhibicion StudioWorks (GSD, 2004). Disfrute de unos minutos viendo como trabaja el modelo ZPrinter 450.

Los laboratorios de prototipado cuentan con diferentes alternativas, como la tecnología Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) comercializada por Stratasys que viene siendo usada en el Laboratorio de Imágen Sólida en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Chile desde el 2006.
Los laser de corte permiten la precisión que se requiere para las piezas de una superficie de desarrollo o cualquier otra del tipo euclidiana, y en mucho casos permite obtener diferentes alternativas y propuestas en poco tiempo. Arriba, visitando a Daniel Cardoso en el MIT, (verano del 2006)