#3D Print
#Algorithmic design
#Data management
#Digital workflows
#Generative Design
#Grasshopper

#design iterations
#material selections
#fabrication explorations

Overview

The architecture and construction industry has undergone a transformation with the integration of various digital tools, now indispensable to the design process. The welcoming of technologies has effectively streamlined operations, enhanced efficiency, and elevated design quality.

In this project, I designed and fabricated an architectural surface-pattern system using form-finding techniques with physics-based simulation tools. Similar to the analog form-finding physical models used by architects such as Antoni Gaudi and Frie Otto, physics-based computational models allow architects and designers to simulate the effect of forces, for example, gravity, and their effect on geometries.

3D-PRINT context

Since the 1980’s, 3D-printing has offered new ways of developing architecture, engineering, and objects of daily use.

As 3D printer draws, it extrudes heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies into a strong stable structure. The structure allows light to pass through. offering new avenues for material expression and geometric complexity.

This additive manufacturing process that creates three dimensional objects from a digital file. Through a layering method of cut cross-section files, the printer creates an object of diverse materials, shapes, sizes, and qualities.

After I researched and tested different mock-ups, I was able to computationally design a geometry of units that assures the feasibility with aesthetic and stability.

I would like to do some experiments with new materials have been driven by sustainability and materials concerns.

This product was simply the result of imagination and creativity started from a box.