DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE18.46
Authors: Marwan Halabi and Chadi El Khoury
Abstract:
Digital fabrication has been rapidly gaining ground in architecture due to its effectiveness in the service of advanced design. With the great development of technology, a considerable range of materials is gaining potential to be explored in the merging process of digital fabrication. This paper investigates on computer aided integrated architectural design and production of components of a selected range of materials using advanced automated tools, aiming to provide integral solutions for the design and production of geometrically complex forms merged with machines restrictions that could serve as potential design parameters. Investigations on computer aided geometric design and integrated manufacturing testing both automated and manual means of assembly are carried out with equal importance. This research is considering an integral and interdisciplinary approach, including physical properties, robotics and architectural design decisions. The studies for translation of the geometrical into constructional elements are considered integral digital fabrication. Addressing and numbering of the elements by iterative geometric design are investigated and compared to lexicographically ordered addressing systems, in order to provide an adequate data structure for the design, production and assembly of the constructional elements. The integrated digital design methods studied are tested and verified by the realization of one to one scale prototypes. The main aim of the research is to find ways of shifting the perspective of adventurous high quality architecture robotically produced with restrictions correspondingly present in tools and machines.
Keywords: Design Decisions, Integral Fabrication, Parametric Architecture, Robotic fabrication, Pick and Place
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