This research presents an alternative approach to constructing compression-only structures by introducing an innovative in-situ construction approach. ...
This research aims to revolutionizes the process of fabricating free-form surfaces and investigate the bed usage in printing doubly curved clay panels. The development process of the printing bed involved ...
This research explores methods of creating wood-based material for 3D printing freeform concrete formwork. This research project represents a pioneering advancement in 3D printing formwork ...
This research project seeks to find an affordable, accessible method for creating freeform space frame structures with conventional desktop 3D printers. Emerging research in 3D printing ...
This research developed a computation method that synergies the Geometrically Informed Non-Planar toolpath (GINP-toolpath) and Geometrically Informed Variable Material Deposition (GIV-Material Deposition) to produce ultra-lightweight ...
Shell Wall demonstrator is the first lightweight, structurally reinforced freeform concrete wall ever 3D printed. This innovative wall system features a geometry optimized to support its load case, with material ...
The ongoing evolution of 3D printing in architecture signifies its shift from merely a prototyping tool to a mainstream fabrication technique. With the capacity to achieve enhanced structural performance while ...
This research develops a computational design method and design interface that allows anyone to generate, explore and visualize minimal surfaces intuitively in real-time instead of having to manipulate mathematical expressions. ...
A lightweight envelope system can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from construction. Lightweight building envelopes can take less time to install, require less scaffolding, use less energy for transportation, ...
Green building envelope systems that incorporate organic life matter and vegetation on the building exterior offer one solution to reduce Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and decrease CO2 in the ...
This project develops computational design and robotic 3d printing technologies for an integrated building envelope system that combines the many functions of the conventional floor-wall-roof systems. ...
This research explores how to parametrically generate rib layouts accounting for both structural constraints and metal casting constraints. An algorithm was developed that takes as its input the boundary and ...
This design interface allows the generation of mesh faces based on intersecting curves. This approach enables designers to take advantage of stress line analysis to inform the structural design of ...
This method aims to simplify the design workflow for parts with minimal material by creating structurally optimized parts based on 2D bitmaps of the force fields generated by the structural ...
Principal stress lines are pairs of orthogonal curves that indicate trajectories of internal forces and can be used as idealized paths for material continuity, which can be translated to structural ...
MinMax presents an approach for reusable formwork for thin-shell, double-sided, highly detailed building envelopes based on binder jet 3D printing technology and Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). ...
This research investigates robotic fused deposition modeling (FDM) for the prefabrication of large-scale, lightweight, and ready-to-cast freeform formwork to minimize material waste, labor, and errors in the construction process while ...
3D printing plastic formwork can transform concrete construction and enable the production of individual freeform concrete structures quickly and cost-effectively, minimizing construction waste and labor. The degree of geometric complexity ...
