Digital fabrication

Category: Design

Year: Fall 2016

Instructor: Matthew Trimble

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The first two photographs are of a project, in which each student was assigned an irregularly shaped paramorph to further design and manipulate its surface and structure according to material usage and techniques that were demonstrated by the instructor. One of the techniques was the usage of KERN 400W laser cutter using strands technique. Next approach to the project was through the use of a ZCorp 3D printing machine. Each of these techniques exposed us to a wide range of machinery.

Whereas the third photograph, the project presented is about studying digital and material work flows embedded in spatial tiling. In this assignment, each student endeavored to develop both the unit and the aggregate, wherein each module is self-similar to every other module in the composition. Each module has a bounding box of 25cm x 25cm x 5cm and was cast in plaster, forming a tessellation which fits within an overall area of 1m x 1m. The final composition should sustain a thoughtful sense of Gestalt, and it should be able to be reoriented (rotated) at least in two different manners.