Experimental Architecture
with robotic timber construction
SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK © CREATE
SDU CREATE SUMMER SCHOOL 2019
SCHOOL FOCUS
Digital Fabrication technologies have the disruptive potential to revolutionize the way we conceive and shape our environment. Through the use of novel fabrication techniques designers and engineers are challenged to explore innovative structures that benefit from the capacity to produce performative and sustainable architecture with, up to now, unreached 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 means of digital fabrication such as additive and robotic manufacturing? How do we realize high-performance architecture with it? How can we build bespoke architecture in a sustainable way?
Adopting a design/make approach, catalyzed through tailored computational techniques, various structural configurations are investigated. The school outcomes are contributing to the creation of an atlas of digitally fabricated tectonic prototypes: experimental architectural configurations where material/form/structure are developed in a coherent design approach which takes full advantage of the potential of emergent fabrication techniques.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge about:
+ The emerging digital technologies of fabrication, such as Additive Manufacturing (AM), robotics and CNC Machinery, their
characteristics, possibilities and limitations
+ The potential enabled by the use of digital fabrication technologies in the context of design and construction
+ Computational tools for design, engineering and fabrication that allow the integration of material, manufacturing, and performance
Participants ARE able to work with the following skills:
+ Design through visual programming and parametric modelling
+ Use digital tools for early-stage analysis and optimization of material, geometrical and mechanical performance within the design process
+ Manufacture construction systems through digital fabrication processes
+ Fabricate and build full scale prototypes
Through this course, students gain THE competences to:
+ Evaluate the possible uses of various digital fabrication techniques in the exploration of new design solutions for architectural systems and structures
+ Involve the use of 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, Prof. Dr. Aljaž Kramberger, Anja Kunić, Luca Breseghello, Takwa ElGammal
In collaboration with: SDU Robotics and supported by SDU I4.0 Lab
Students: Rasmus K. Andersen, Jonas A. Eriksen, Emilie Folkmann, Zahabia Gandhi, Frederikke L. Husum, Martyna Idasiak, Tommy R. Jespersen, Harald Jöchl, David W. Jokszies, Alicja Kowalewska, Vikas Kushwaha, Mads K. Madsen, Shreyas More, Esben Pedersen, Sandro Sanin, Frederik Skafte, Marianne Storch, Marie Teichmann, Daniel Thornild