Architectural Building: Fabrication & Technology

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CEMENT CASTING

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EX 7

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CEMENT FILL AND FOAM REMOVAL 

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CEMENT CASTING

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Final review!!

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I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas...(Lyrics in MORE)

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Only a hippopotamus will do Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy I want a ...

We based the curves for our foam cutting off the sound levels of this song. 

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Inspiration for the form of our foam cut model

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Using fairy lights wrapped in various configurations, we used a robotic arm to follow two different curves: a spiral and a freeform curve. 

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Battery pack holder for robot arm attachment.

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Testing velocities, geometries, and different light types on the robotic arm and human arm. 

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Part 3: The aggregate spinning and swinging from the gantry in the ECL in order to observe the effects of light and shadow as it moved. 

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Part 2: Assembly of the aggregate in the Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab (ECL). We explored the effects of light and shadow cast by the forms. 

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Part 1: Aggregate testing and individual components. Our form was based on the idea of “clawing at its surroundings.”

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Digital Craft Making

With new technology developments in the field of architecture, some believe that an architect’s craftsmanship is lost.  Branko Kolarevic mentions in one of his chapters from the book, “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making of Architectre,” the two phrases: “work of the mind” and “ work of the hand” (127).  I believe that even though architects lose some of the physical craftsmanship aspects in prototyping and model making with modern technology, the idea of the mind at work is not lost.  Architectural thinking is at the source of every technology that may be used to in crafting because an architect has to dictate and guide programs to produce an outcome.  The “work of the hand” is somewhat lost and replaced with a digital machine, and other than the aspects of the ideas that still exist behind every project, trial and error is still present with digital fabrication.