Digital Fabrications Architectural And Material Techniques

There are 25 major specialties in engineering that are recognized by professional societies. In any one of those 25 specialties, the goal of the engineer is the same. The goal is to be able to come up with a cost effective design that aids people in the tasks they face each day. Whether it be the coffee machine in the morning or the roads and highways we travel, or even the cars we travel in, it was all an idea that started with an engineer. Someone engineered each idea to make it the best solution to a problem. Even though engineer 's goals are similar, there are many different things that engineers do within their selected field of engineering. This paper will focus on the architectural field of engineering.

(1)3D Coordination (2) Design Reviews (3)Design authoring (4)Construction System Design (5) Existing Condition Modeling (6) 3D Control and planning (7) Programming (8) Phase planning(4D modeling) (9) Record Modeling (10) Site Utilization Planning (11) Site analysis (12) structural Analysis (13) Energy Analysis (14) Cost Estimation (15)Sustainability LEED Evaluation (16) Building System Analysis (17) Space Management /Tracking (18)Mechanical Analysis (19) Code Validation (20) Lighting Analysis (21) Other Engineering analysis (22)Digital Fabrication (23) Asset Management (24) Building Maintenance Scheduling (25) Disaster Planning.

With the background and preliminary work complete, the remaining work in this contract is concentrated in constructing and presenting the proposed design. After the proposed design is modelled on AutoCAD, a physical prototype will be constructed. The prototype will require testing and improvement over several iterations. Upon the completion of the prototype, it will serve as a visual aid to the project presentation.

A tessellation is a pattern put together by identical shapes that fit together perfectly with no gaps or overlaps. M.C. Escher is the man who created the idea of tessellations, who is a Dutch graphic design artist. He had a very tough early life since he suffered from very common skin infections, which in turn caused him to do very poor in his core curriculum. Although he was very bad in his main subjects, he excelled in his music and art classes. As an artist, M.C. Escher began by drawing landscapes primarily of nature. After a few years of this, he decided to go in a different variety of art by using the dimensional planes to his advantage to create illusions and trick the eye. He would sketch landscapes of Italy from very unique perspectives that alter reality, later he would sketch artwork from his mind rather than looking at nature. His form of artwork is commonly referred to as “impossible reality”. He mainly worked with lithographs and woodcuts, lithograph is an

3D modeling uses these concepts from linear perspective to create the 3D image and provide structure to the composition. When arranging elements in the 3d environment we provide a perspective for the viewer to see the image we have created in our mind come to life.

Have you ever looked into the concepts behind what makes a tessellation? Tessellations are made using a combination of artistic and mathematical abilities. M.C. Escher was a talented man from the Netherlands who made tessellations. He made such interesting art pieces of various types by using mathematical concepts and artistic details. M.C. Escher’s techniques on his tessellations made them stand out to viewers.

Tessellations are a type of art form that uses multiple geometric objects in a repeating pattern to create a piece of art. Tessellations usually are very bright and colorful, and do not have a certain portrait or landscape focus. There are many different Tessellations that are all original in their own sense. Some artists even make their Tessellations look like real objects or creatures, like M. C. Escher’s popular piece “Sky and Water,” which depicts a tessellation of a bird turning into a fish and vice versa.

• 3D Modeling You and your customer can see exactly how the project will look before construction begins. This enables better and faster decisions with fewer problems and revisions during the build phase. The 3D modeling provides a virtual

3D printing technology is changing the way we view the world. With a few keystrokes on the computer and a 3D printer, you can create anything from toys, guns, and even prosthetic limbs (Carter 2014). However, there are now companies within the Unites States and the world, who have begun experimenting with the feasibility of creating structures out of concrete through this same 3D printing process. With the current trend, these companies estimate they can construct new buildings from start to finish in under one day (RT 2014). Even with the US and the world facing a housing crisis,

“Although 3-D printers are not yet a standard part of home-computing equipment, the latest generation of devices, such as Cube® by 3D Systems, the Cubex™ or Makerbot’s Replicator™2X - which retail for between one and three thousand US dollars - are bringing the possibility of home manufacturing one step closer to reality” (Jewell). Now the biggest difference between traditional manufacturing and 3D printing will be the emergence of mass customization. Goods will be, “infinitely more customized, because altering them won’t require retooling, only tweaking the instructions in the software. Creativity in meeting individuals’ needs will come to the fore, just as quality control did in the age of rolling out sameness” (D'Aveni). When you have a product that is printed out individually from software with your own customization, then there would be no reason in buying a product that will look like something another person can own because of its ordinary accessibility. Creating physical 3D models in a fast, easy and affordable way has great potential, especially when you can do it in the comfort of your home.

Last month we featured an article that spoke of the benefits of prefabrication constructions in interior design. In today’s fast paced society, time is of the essence. Using prefabricated interior solutions are an excellent alternative to conventional construction methods, as they make the construction process quicker, more flexible and more efficient, as well as help cut down production costs.

Terra Cotta, an Italian words meaning “baked earth”, is a durable, flexible, and fireproof building material that made of clay. One of its largest advantages is that no matter how intricate design patterns, it can be casted into any applicable shapes. The modeling task is much easier and can be reusable compared with other casting materials, especially with a limited range of modeling tools. Small details that was hard to be achieved in the stone carving can be accomplished easily in the malleable material, and once burned under a high temperature, terra cotta will harden and make it shapes like strong masonry(but comparatively lightweight and cheap in cost). Since its versatile characteristics, terra cotta became a favorite material of Sullivan when designing the ornamentation part of the Wainwright building, and such delicate task will be never executed by using other

The motivation of Dr. Deng’s research stems from our need to create complex and high-quality 3D models in numerous applications. Today 3D models are used for computer graphics and animations, human computer interaction, and virtual human modeling and animation, and much more.

3D printing is a technology that was invented in the early 1980s by a man named Charles Hull (Ventola, 2014). Since its creation, 3D printing has branched into many different aspects of the world and is being utilized in fields like the automotive industry, medicine and is even being used for everyday purposes. Later on, Charles Hull founded a company called 3D Systems which developed the first ever 3D printer. In 1988, Hull and his company 3D Systems, put forth the first commercially available 3D printer. From this point on, 3D printing would be advanced and evolved to the point where it would have the opportunity to create a revolutionary impact on the world we

Additive manufacturing has been developing since 19841. Charles hull invented it. In additive manufacturing 3 dimensional products are built by staking materials layer by layer. It is also known as 3D printing. The scope of technology is sky rocketed with the intervention of the fourth-dimension time, which is 4D printing technology. The interesting feature of 4D printing is it can transform from 1D to 3D shape, 1D surface to 3D shape, or can morph from 3D form to another form. In other words, the products can change and adapt to the external stimuli. This is a recent advancement in technology additive manufacturing combined concepts of shape memory materials and biomimetic composite