The wall challenge Walls is the occasion to print thin surfaces and explore the relationship between the geometry and the structural behaviour in adobe printing. When addressing structural properties in 3d printing, one should consider two main aspects: the structural integrity during the printing process, that is while the material is wet/uncured, and the one […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
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Workshop objectives The general objective was to create a habitat for a bird that keeps a cool temperature taking advantage of self-shading and thermal conductivity. This workshop was engaged with the following topics: Double layering printing Thermal conductivity Solar incidence and sun-path (the birdhouses have an orientation) Cavity filling
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IAAC BUILDs – OTF 2017 – Workshop #1 Brief Zeer Pot Context A pot-in-pot refrigerator, clay pot cooler or zeer (Arabic: زیر ) is an evaporative cooling refrigeration device which does not use electricity. It uses a porous outer earthenware pot, lined with wet sand, contains an inner pot (which can be glazed to prevent […]
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This project aimed to explore whether that is possible to design and construct a multi-storey habitat, out of a sustainable material like adobe, within robotic additive fabrication in a dense urban context. Additive manufacturing in architecture is still in early stages. Although there are few projects that tried to face this approach, it is still […]