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Final Project

Inspirations ::

Inspiration from the previous exercise ::

create variations within the same mold

Proposal ::

To make various panel unit from the same mold. Units can aggregate to form a panel system which include turning corners.

Materials used ::

oomoo 25 rubber 8 lbs

Smooth cast 300 20lbs

Basswood 1/32″ 6 pieces

MDF 4′ x 2′

Tool / Machine required ::

Lasercut – making the original positive for casting rubber

CNC – making the stand for casting the turning piece

Glue gun

Container with measurements and stirrer – for casting

Fabrication strategies ::

1 Mold subdivided into units as a flexible mold

Unit connection detail ::

Various results ::

2. Light penetration governed by the material thickness, a two sided panel

3. Flexure mold –

Planar curvature

Turning corner

How to make the whole thing?

1. Lasercut the positive as the mold for rubber.

2. Cast rubber oomoo 25 into slices (units) . Make sure the rubber fully filled the mold.

3. Aggregate the units to for the desire mold for casting plastic.

4. Fixed the mold and cast plastic (Smooth cast 300)

5. When the plastic completely formed. Remove the plastic and the mold is ready to go again.

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4.184 MAKE ARCHITECTURE

4.184 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WORKSHOP:
[MAKING ARCHITECTURE] THE RESULTS
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Instructor: Nick Gelpi TA: Skylar Tibbits TA: Varvara Toulkeridou
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Class Times, Monday, 1-4pm - room 5-216
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4.184 is an intensive introduction to methods of making explored through a wide range of brief but focused 1-week exercises. We'll engage the real and leave behind representation in the focused context of this class gaining skills for utilizing a range of fabrication machines and technologies from lasercutting, waterjet, 3D printing, welding, formworking-molding, casting, gears, joints and composites.
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In this workshop we'll constrain ourselves to the territory of the 1:1. Students will represent architectural constructions at full scale and develop a more intimate relationship with technology by engaging the tools and techniques that empower us. We will gain access to the most cutting edge machines and technologies in the MARS lab at the Center for Bits and Atoms.
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The second layer of information for this course will be to look at a series of case studies in which construction methods and technologies have played a dominant role in the design process .
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Over the past 20 years, architects have focused on the technology of representation to create new ideas of what architecture could be. Looking back today, much of that research failed to substantially change the way we design buildings by focusing on apriori formal configurations. This class makes the contention that this failure comes from a lack of considerations of the potentials within fabrication knowledge. We look to the future of what building might become, given the expanded palette of personalize-able technologies available to us as architects. Students will participate in curious technological and material investigations, to discover the potentials, known and unknown, for these various technologies.
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The sub-disciplines of what's drawn and what's built have been compartmentalized and disassociated as the representational tools of architecture have distanced themselves from the techniques of making. At the same time the technologies for “making” in architecture have provided us with new possibilities for reinventing how we translate into reality, the immaterial representations of architecture.
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