Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing
The last decades have been marked by a growing concern over scarcity of resources caused by the rapid industrialization of emerging economies as well as by the high material consumption at a global scale. These changing environmental conditions have inevitably created new challenges and demands for...
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| author | Roberto Naboni Anja Kunic Luca Breseghello Ingrid Paoletti |
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| description | The last decades have been marked by a growing concern over scarcity of resources caused by the rapid industrialization of emerging economies as well as by the high material consumption at a global scale. These changing environmental conditions have inevitably created new challenges and demands for mediation of the interaction between the natural and the human-made environments. In response to these challenges, designers are currently moving away from conventional top-down design, towards a nature-inspired approach in search of the underlying principles of morphogenesis and materialization inherent to biological entities. Inscribed in this approach, this paper proposes an innovative design-to-fabrication workflow for the conception of nature-inspired load-responsive skin systems which integrates the use of computational tools, Additive Manufacturing, and material experiments with full-scale prototypes. The design phase employs custom algorithms to determine an optimal material distribution for free-form architectural shapes, given a specific loading condition. Through fabrication tests at different scales, the viability of a production system based on Fused Deposition Modelling is demonstrated. Subsequently, the realization of a final prototype of a load-responsive cellular envelope cladded with Fiber-Glass Reinforced Plastic is presented. Opportunities and current limitations of the approach and the emerging architectural system are critically discussed towards future developments.
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| spelling | doaj.art-da20ffee125d42458cff662379fa21832023-03-15T13:53:28ZengStichting OpenAccessJournal of Facade Design and Engineering2213-302X2213-30382017-01-015110.7480/jfde.2017.1.142762Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive ManufacturingRoberto Naboni0Anja Kunic1Luca Breseghello2Ingrid Paoletti3ACTLAB - ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, ItalyACTLAB, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, ItalyACTLAB, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, ItalyACTLAB - ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, ItalyThe last decades have been marked by a growing concern over scarcity of resources caused by the rapid industrialization of emerging economies as well as by the high material consumption at a global scale. These changing environmental conditions have inevitably created new challenges and demands for mediation of the interaction between the natural and the human-made environments. In response to these challenges, designers are currently moving away from conventional top-down design, towards a nature-inspired approach in search of the underlying principles of morphogenesis and materialization inherent to biological entities. Inscribed in this approach, this paper proposes an innovative design-to-fabrication workflow for the conception of nature-inspired load-responsive skin systems which integrates the use of computational tools, Additive Manufacturing, and material experiments with full-scale prototypes. The design phase employs custom algorithms to determine an optimal material distribution for free-form architectural shapes, given a specific loading condition. Through fabrication tests at different scales, the viability of a production system based on Fused Deposition Modelling is demonstrated. Subsequently, the realization of a final prototype of a load-responsive cellular envelope cladded with Fiber-Glass Reinforced Plastic is presented. Opportunities and current limitations of the approach and the emerging architectural system are critically discussed towards future developments. https://jfde.eu/index.php/jfde/article/view/62Cellular latticeSkin SystemDigital fabricationAdditive ManufacturingComputational Design |
| spellingShingle | Roberto Naboni Anja Kunic Luca Breseghello Ingrid Paoletti Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing Journal of Facade Design and Engineering Cellular lattice Skin System Digital fabrication Additive Manufacturing Computational Design |
| title | Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing |
| title_full | Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing |
| title_fullStr | Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing |
| title_short | Load-Responsive Cellular Envelopes with Additive Manufacturing |
| title_sort | load responsive cellular envelopes with additive manufacturing |
| topic | Cellular lattice Skin System Digital fabrication Additive Manufacturing Computational Design |
| url | https://jfde.eu/index.php/jfde/article/view/62 |
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