EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRUCTION
WITH LARGE SCALE ​3D PRINTING

SDU CREATE SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

SCHOOL FOCUS

Additive Manufacturing is the fabrication method with the most disruptive potential to revolutionize the way we conceive and produce the built environment. Through 3D Printing in particular, designers are challenged to explore novel architecture that benefits from the capacity to shape forms with unreachable levels of complexity and strategic material organization.
The Summer School focuses on exploring ideas and producing design artifacts as answer to some fundamental driving questions: what kind of tectonic configurations can be enabled by 3D printing? How do we realize high-performance architecture with it? How can we build bespoke architecture in a sustainable way? Adopting a research through design approach, catalyzed through computational techniques, various tectonics articulations are investigated to take advantage of some of the unique features of 3D printing for architecture. The unit outcome is an atlas of 3D printed tectonic prototypes: experimental architectural configurations where material/form/performance are tackled coherently and sublimate to achieve an autonomous aesthetic expression. The Summer School is mainly based on the use of 3D Printing. One WASP 3MT printer, equipped with pellets and filament extruder will be used for large scale fabrication, while a small WASP Turbo 2040 will be used for small prototyping. Complementary Digital Fabrication tools will be used as necessary to experiment with a range of materials and techniques.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of this course is to provide knowledge about:

+ The technology of Additive Manufacturing (AM), its characteristics, possibilities and limitations

+ The potential enabled by the use of large scale 3D Printing in the context of design and constructions

+ The new fabrication/construction techniques supported by 3D Printing

+ Computational tools for design, engineering and fabrication that allow integrating material, manufacturing, and sustainability

Participants ARE able to work with the following skills:

+ Design through visual programming and parametric modelling

+ Use early-stage digital tools to analyze and optimize material, geometrical and mechanical performance within the design process

+ Manufacture construction systems with 3D printing

+ Fabricate and build full scale prototypes

Through this course, students gain THE competences to:

+ Evaluate the possible uses of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in the exploration of new design and fabrication of architectural systems and structures

+ Involve the use computational workflows to manage the process from design to fabrication of custom construction systems

course CREDITS

Organized by CREATE, University of Southern Denmark - Led by Prof. Dr. Roberto Naboni

Teaching Team: Prof. Dr. Roberto Naboni, Anja Kunić, Luca Breseghello, Lidia Ratoi

Technical Partners: Eni-Versalis, FILOALFA, Hi-Con

Powered by: WASP Hub Southern Denmark

Students: Per Aaskov Knudsen, Amir Al-Shamari, Elin Daun, Takwa ElGammal, Yara Sameh Mansour Mokhtar Gamal, Sami Joe Haddad, Lena Caroline Charlotte Herpell, Kinga Jadwiga Kadróg, Peter Kovač, Achraf Lfadeli, Allyza Marie Mabutol, Seer Karla A. Mamporte, Thomas Neumeyer, Kristian Norman Olsen, Giulio Paparella, Joanna Elzbieta Sabak, Patrisha Mae Salamatin, Georgia Skroumpelou, Anthony Soumi, Mads Vestergaard Boesen, Jakob Weber Therkildsen, He Yin, Dimitrios Ziogkas