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Fabricate 2020

Making Resilient Architecture

Edited by Jane Burry, Jenny E. Sabin, Bob Sheil, and Marilena Skavara

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ISBN: 9781787358126

Publication: April 06, 2020

Series: FABRICATE

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Fabricate 2020 is the fourth title in the FABRICATE series on the theme of digital fabrication and published in conjunction with a triennial conference (London, April 2020). The book features cutting-edge built projects and work-in-progress from both academia and practice. It brings together pioneers in design and making from across the fields of architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Fabricate 2020 includes 32 illustrated articles punctuated by four conversations between world-leading experts from design to engineering, discussing themes such as drawing-to-production, behavioural composites, robotic assembly, and digital craft.

Jane Burry is an architect, professor and Dean of the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She is lead author of The New Mathematics of Architecture, T&H, 2010, editor of Designing the Dynamic, Melbourne Books, 2013 and co-author of Prototyping for Architects, T&H 2016, and has over a hundred other publications.

Jenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. She is the Wiesenberger Associate Professor in the area of design and emerging technologies at Cornell University.

Bob Sheil is Professor in Architecture and Design through Production at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, and has been Director of School since 2014. He is the author of multiple book chapters, refereed papers, and articles on design, making and technology. He has co-designed and built six artefacts/built works, and his work has been exhibited internationally on 11 occasions.

Marilena Skavara is a London-based architect and interaction designer. She is a co-founder and partner at Codica Ltd., a digital product design practice focused on outcome-driven innovation. Using high-fidelity prototyping and embedding design into agile development cycles, Codica delivers the real product experience in record time, maximising the opportunities for iteration and refinement.

Foreword

Christoph Lindner, Zoe Laughlin,Frédéric Migayrou

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jane Burry, Jenny Sabin

From Making Digital Architecture to Making Resilient Architecture

Bob Sheil

1: BIO-MATERIALITY

MUD Frontiers

Virginia San Fratello, Ronald Rael

The Design and Fabrication of Confluence Park

Andrew Kudless, Joshua Zabel, Chuck Naeve, Tenna Florian

The Role of Robotic Milling in the Research and Development of the Cork Construction Kit

Oliver Wilton, Matthew Barnett Howland, Peter Scully

Pulp Faction: 3D printed material assemblies through microbial biotransformation

Ana Goidea, Dimitrios Floudas, David Andréen

From Machine Control to Material Programming: Self-shaping wood manufacturing of a high performance curved CLTstructure – Urbach Tower

Dylan Wood, Philippe Grönquist, Simon Bechert, Lotte Aldinger, David Riggenbach, Katharina Lehmann, Markus Rüggeberg, Ingo Burgert, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges

Bending the Line: Zippered wood creating nonorthogonal architectural assemblies using the most common linear building component (the 2x4)

Blair Satterfield, Alexander Preiss, Derek Mavis, Graham Entwistle, Marc Swackhamer, Matthew Hayes

Biocomposites from Annually Renewable Resources Displaying Vision of Future Sustainable Architecture: Design and fabrication of two 1:1 demonstrators

Hanaa Dahy. Jan Petrš, Piotr Baszyński

Cellulosic Biocomposites for Sustainable Manufacturing

Stylianos Dritsas, Yadunund Vijay, Samuel Halim, Ryan Teo, Naresh Sanandiya, Javier G. Fernandez

2: SYNTHESISING DESIGN AND PRODUCTION

Kuwait International Airport Terminal 2: Engineering and fabrication of a complex parametric megastructure

Lucio Blandini, Guido Nieri

A Factory on the Fly: Exploring the structural potential of cyber-physical construction

Asbjørn Søndergaard, Radu Becus, Gabriella Rossi, Kyle Vansice, Rahul Attraya, Austin Devin

Direct-to-Drawing: Automation in extruded terracotta fabrication

Scott Overall, John Paul Rysavy, Clinton Miller, William Sharples, Christopher Sharples, Sameer Kumar, Andrea Vittadini, Victoire Saby

The Tide [Phase 1]: Greenwich Peninsula, London

Emmanuel Verkinderen, Bryce Suite, Ryan Neiheiser, Edoardo Tibuzzi, Jeg Dudley

Making Form Work: Experiments along the grain of concrete and timber

Sasa Zivkovic, Leslie Lok

Additive Fabrication of Concrete Elements by Robots: Lightweight concrete ceiling

Georg Hansemann, Robert Schmid, Christoph Holzinger, Joshua P. Tapley, Hoang Kim Huy, Valentino Sliskovic, Bernhard Freytag, Andreas Trummer, Stefan Peters

DFAB House: A comprehensive demonstrator of digital fabrication in architecture

Konrad Graser, Marco Baur, Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska, Kathrin Dörfler, Norman Hack, Andrei Jipa, Ena Lloret-Fritschi, Timothy Sandy, Daniel Sanz Pont, Daniel M. Hall, Matthias Kohler

Fabrication and Application of 3D-Printed Concrete Structural Components in the Baoshan Pedestrian Bridge Project

Weiguo Xu, Yuan Gao, Chenwei Sun, Zhi Wang

Q&A

Q&A 1 Antoine Picon with Julia Barfield and Kai Strehlke

Moderated by Jenny Sabin

Q&A 2 Monica Ponce de Leon with Cristiano Ceccato

Moderated by Jenny Sabin

Q&A 3 Carl Bass with Philippe Block

Moderated by Jane Burry

Q&A 4 Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen with Meejin Yoon

Moderated by Jane Burry

Q&A BIOGRAPHIES

3. OPTIMISATION FOR A CHANGING WORLD

Architectural Scale Kagome Weaving: Design methods and fabrication concepts

Phil Ayres, Adam Orlinski, Moritz Heimrath, Soraya Bornaz, Alison Grace Martin

Rethinking Efficient Shell Structures with 3D-Printed Formwork

Xiang Wang, Chun Pong So, Liming Zhang, Zhewen Chen, Philip F. Yuan

KnitCandela: Challenging the construction, logistics, waste and economy of concreteshell formwork

Mariana Popescu, Matthias Rippmann, Tom Van Mele, Philippe Block

Printed Assemblages:A co-evolution of composite tectonics and additive manufacturing techniques

Roland Snooks, Laura Harper

Large-Scale Free-Form Timber Grid Shell: Digital planning of the new Swatch headquarters in Biel, Switzerland

Hanno Stehling, Fabian Scheurer, Sylvain Usai

Optimisation of Robotic Printing Paths for Structural Stiffness Using Machine Learning

Zeynep Aksöz, Samuel Wilkinson, Giannis Nikas

The Anatomy of a Skeleton: Hybrid processes for largescale robotic fabrication

Emmanuel Vercruysse

BUGA Fibre Pavilion: Towards roboticallyfabricated composite building structures

Serban Bodea, Niccolo Dambrosio, Christoph Zechmeister, Marta Gil Pérez, Valentin Koslowski, Bas Rongen, Moritz Dörstelmann, Ondrej Kyjanek, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges

4: POLEMICAL PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE

Embedded Architecture: Ada, driven by humans, powered by AI

Jenny E. Sabin, John Hilla, Dillon Pranger, Clayton Binkley, Jeremy Bilotti

Diagrams of Entropic Forces: Design for new dissipative fabrication

Philip Beesley

Discrete Timber Assembly

Gilles Retsin

Towards Discrete Automation

Mollie Claypool

House #05: Incremental construction in digital practice

Paul Loh, David Leggett

Concrete Choreography: Prefabrication of 3D-printed columns