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DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2016 M3 JOURNAL - YOUR PROJECT TITLE

SOODABEH HASHEMI (761448)

Tim Cameron_group 6

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Introduction

Essentially the design that we presented for M2 module, was extended through the body to reflect the effect of our measured object(party popper)as well as expressing the initial sketch model as it is shown in the photo. However the design was disconnected from fabrication as it seemed to be very complicated. After M2, I tried to connect the design more with fabrication so I ended up omitting the some part of the design through the body. I was a bit creative blocked, so I designed few different sleep pods which they still carried some hints from my original design.

I took the idea of spiral effect around the body which I initially designed it .

Also the translucent material that cover the face was taken form the goup.

The prototypes that i made for M2 ,it was only partial of the proposed design.

sketch design,that iam integrating to revise model based on the feedback from M2

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Design development

I tried to study into my precedents more and apply new effect to my design in order to make it easier to fabricate and also still reflect my original idea of spiral around the upper body.so focused on the head to create more secu-rity and comfort for the head. Moreover by screening the head and providing a sense of privacy the user can achieve better of the personal space. The unusual spiral feature of the design has as elf explanatory effect that the person who is wearing this sleep pod needs privacy and personal space.

on the other hand, i designed a mesh as translucent material that still the user of sleep pod can see the world but he/she cant be seen through.

Indeed,i descided to make a prototype of this design to test the structure ,effect,movement and application and work out what changes should make to the design to enhence it in terms of fabrication and poetry of design.

in this design i still kept the translucent mesh at the front which i had from group.so tiried to develop it inorder to be more fabric-able.at this satge still i had trouble fabricating my design as it had lack of structure.

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Design development + fabrication of Prototype V.2

In this prototype, I tried to test the effect of my design the application of the design on the user as well as test of the new material which is sponge extrusions and foam to manipulate the material and make it applicable to my design.

This prototype helped me In terms of my solving my design problem which is how to use the sleep pod an also how to, make my design more connected with digital fabrication. This prototype is made exactly out of the mesurments of the 3d digital design. Sponge is a good material to work with in fabricating my design however this material constraints my design in term of selection of the diameter of the pipes around the head. On the other hand it gives me the flexibility to manipulate my curves to create different type of curvature with these pipes.so form this prototype i achieved some new ideas ,and also some feed back from paul raised new ideas in my mind.

this is the completed prototype an dis teste don th ereal body to check th econfortability of the design

All of the mesurments are in milim-scale 1:1

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exploring ideas These are the precedents that i observed in order to block bust myself in my design process.

Still I really liked The idea of curvature around the head due to the effect that it creates and it addresses my original object which was party popper.

The idea of skin and bone are applied in the following precedents.So I applied some changes to the design and considering the given feedback from Paul and Tim to my design. I had a look at some precedents to give me new hints to solve my design-problem which was structural as I couldn’t man-age to hold the design static on the body.

This precedent in terms of material-ity is similar to my prototype but it is very different in terms of effect and design. Basically this design has straight lines or very simple arcs, whereas my design is more of spiral curves.so it defiantly needs bones to structure it and shape the curves.so I have to use kind of material that can help me with this system, such wire and extrusion sponge.

So I applied some changes to the design and con-sidering the given feedback from Paul and Tim to my design. I had a look at some precedents to give me new hints to solve my design-problem which was structural as I couldn’t manage to hold the design static on the body.

Design development

The sequence of photos expresses the design process that I experimented till I achieved the desired outcome. From No1 to 5 the problem of structure yet stayed stand by and I couldn’t work out the ways to hold my design static. After few feedbacks and looking at some precedents I came to the idea of anchoring the de-sign on 3 spots which are head and two shoulders. So the load of the upper struc-ture can be transferred to those anchor spots and resist the collapsing moment. Ac-cording to photo 6, the hints from Paul was strongly constructive and I designed a soft cushion on the head to provide more stability to the design by connecting the curves onto applied cushion. Indeed, I ended up adding and playing with the curves and to allocate them according to their function which is supporting the structure as well as addressing the brief of the sleep pod design, which is personal space and comfortability as well as aesthetic of the design well. No 9 is the proposed final design that i started to make a prototype.

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These are my final designs. i highly used rhino to revise my design as I felt more confident with digital modeling than hand drawn sketches. However I did some sketches in order to work out where are the best locations for the curves around the head in order to create a self-explan-atory feauture.as well as anchor the structure of the design. According to kolarevic, i outline my design process as abstraction, reduction and normalization in which,Abstraction has a systematically rule or solution that comes with all of the components,Synergic idea.

morover,Reduction is reducing amount of information by getting rid of unwanted ideas or in another word elimination of redundancies and optimization of descriptions and process. so i achived this design as my proposed design.

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•Two dimensional fabrication, which is CNC- cutting or various cutting technologies, such as plasm-arc, laser beam and water-jet are done in 2 dimension of sheet material.•Subtractive fabrication, is about removal of a specific volume of material from solid by electro or mechanically•Additive fabrication, adding layer by layer material to form a solid free form fabrication, rapid prototyping ,layered manufactural or desktop manufacturing•Formative fabrication, mechanical forces, restricting forms, heat as form of steam are applied to a material so as to form it into the desired shape through reshaping or deformation which can be a surface constrained.•Assembly ,using digital 3D models to precisely determine the location of each component to move it there and install it on the proper place•Surface strategies, by creating and manipulating NURBS surfaces, architects can produce build-ing skins that result in new expressive and aesthetic qualities as well as new tectonic and geomet-ric complexities.•Production strategies, it is used for 2D fabrications, which includes contouring triangulation, ruled developable surfaces and unfolding.•New materiality, has helped architects to produce desired aesthetic and spatial effects•Mass customization, industrial manufacturing helping the building products with logics a start-egisation prefabrication and onsite installation.

Architecture in the Digital Age - Design + Manufacturing/ Branko Kolarevic, Spon Press, London c2003

Briefly outline the various digital fabrication processes. Explain how you use digital fabrication in your design?

Reading Response Wk 6

The photos of my design under process.i used mesh and created mesh to nurbes to help me with unrolling the surface and use it in my fabrication process.indeed i used th eunrolled surface in terms of forming my geometry t o extract it out of my fabric material.

plasmaarc CNC cutting of steel sup-ports for masonary wall

msonary walls in one of the zollhof tower,2000

Triangulation of a doubly curved surfave

structural farme work for a ship hull Assembly of structural frame for disney concert hall (2003)

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Reading applied to design

How does the fabrication process and strategy effect your sleep-pod project?

I tried to use developable surface although, the pipes couldn’t be considered as developable surface.so i made mesh out of them by creating NURBS to create a fabric-able design. I made a mesh via connecting the points of planer to form of a mesh. Indeed, I was able to define my object by control points and also i could unroll the mesh to use them as guid in fabrication. Moreover, it helped me in terms of finding the suitable material and work out the amount of material to order.i printed out the unrolled mesh to use as pattern on my prototype. Es-sentially I tried to gather information and date via the 3d model to avoid waste in fabrication.

These photos are part of my design that I tried to use in fabricating the pipes. However the unrolled surfaces resulted round 800 surfaces that I had to sew together to achieve the form of the curvature according to de-sign.it seemed impossible. However I used this technic for only the joints part of my design to achieve high level of precision in my fabrication.

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Sectioning is one of the most helpful and representational tools that architects can use as a valuable communication means in digital fabrication method. Essentially, information’s are translated into another form to make the design more clearly for the builder. Taking cut through section of a 3 dimensional object to communicate with builder in which in this term is a machine. For example by using section command or contour command in rhino designers can create instantly cut through objects parallel sections.According to Lisa Iwamoto (2009),this method is used in airplane and shipbuilding to make curve surfaces as series of section ribs that associate with their respective built forms .cladding between the cross sectional profiles is analogue to lofting in digital soft-ware. This method has been adopted in building technique by le Corbusier in pre digital era in Romechomp building. Clearly it is designed and built as series of structural con-crete ribs and connected together by crossbeams. As conclusion, this method of section-ing have helped architects to have a limitless possibilities in designs. Sectioning allows the projects to exceed the liner interpretation from digital to physical sectioning.

Digital Fabrications: architectural + material techniques/Lisa Iwamoto. New York: Princeton Architectural Press c2009

Describe one aspect of the recent shift in the use of digital technology from design to fabrication?

Reading Response Wk 7

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Reading applied to design

Referencing from the lectures and readings, what is the implication of digital fabrication on your design ?

I my design was changed a lot interims getting more connected to digital fabrication. My prob-lem was finding material and also translating my design into fabrication by extract-ing data from my digital design. Essentially in my design the joints and Boolean union of them are the most important part in terms fabrication. Also the length and the place of each pipe are ex-tracted from the digital design. So I used the assembly technique by using digital 3d model to precisely determine the location of each component (pipes) to move it there and in-stall it on the proper place to form the shape of my design.Also in order to bring further level of precision into my design and extract info’s from my digi-tal design I use laser cutting to create a probe or scaffolding to help me find the exact location and joints of each pipe.In doing that I used sectioning command on rhino and took a section curves, so created a scaf-folding by connecting them.

using sectioning command to extract curves and make a laser cutting template to create a scafholding for my fabrication stage.

these photos are the template that i made ready for laser cut-ting,4 diffrent positions i madea prob by laser cutting.

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Prototype development

At this stage my design wasn’t still finalised, from this prototype I applied some changes in terms of structure and stability.so as I mentioned earlier I got rid of mesh part as it couldn’t address the idea of skin and bone.

Now the refined digital model is more viable in terms of digital fabrications.so testing different material which is lady stocking filled with polystyrene beans and insulation fibre to give me more opportunity to manipulate my pro-totype and achieve high level of precision to create exactly translated version of my design into fabrication.

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These are the photos of the segment of my design that its measurements are showing in page 11. The photos are focusing on the connection joints and al-so the variable length, materiality of the prototype as well as potential effect of the design. Comfort-ability and flexibility of the material is accepted in this pro-totype, so I can start optimizing my prototype by application of a further level of precision.

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Prototype optimisation

These are photos of a segment of my design that shows all the measurements that I made ready for fabrication of this prototype. For example the length of the pipes diameters and also the distance between the Boole-an part. In my design according to my 3d model, I have to pay high attentions to the joints as the connections and joints of the pipes are playing n integral role in structure of my design to help it stay static. Also the pipe must be placed in an accurate place according to digital design to help the design stay structurally up. at this stage i dont have the laser cuting scaffholdings yet,so i tried to extract exact locations by using analysise comand in rihno to give me diffrent mesurments .

These are the mesur-ments of the lenghth of the upper loops and the bottom loops .

Thse are the mesurments of the booleend parts.whcih helped me to work out the right place of the

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The material that I chose was coordinating with my design effect well, which is creating a Volumatic geometry as well as freedom from the visibility blocking noise for the introverted user. But working with stocking and polystyrene was through whole project is not a good ideas these materials are so hard in control and the diameter of the pipes changes through the construction stage as polystyrene are very flowy. On the other hand, I tried the prototype on my boyfriend’s body, but visibly I could feel the structure is not stable .in order to bring more stability, I decide to optimise my prototype by alternating sponge extrusion with this material to give me the desired outcome.

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Prototype optimisation

These images are showing the process of using the leaser cutting scaffolding, so I place d each pipe into the cer-tain hole according to the digital model that I had. Then sew the joints and locations that I had to consider to sew. Finally, I broke the template out to take it off the pod. So in doing that, I created exact form of the curves in term of locations and length of pipes, joints length and intersec-tions of the pipes.

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in this phase i used fab lab to laser cut a template or outline to hold my pipes while i was seing them togather. also it gave me th eaccurate place and distance between eac pipes.this scafholding helped me amazingly in order to work out th eexact location of the joints and sew the =m togather accordinly.

i order to make th etemplat ereadr.i used section command to creat a section from 3 diffrent place of the objects. the first 3 outline are belong to the 5 pipes on the highest point on top of t hehead. and the wider and bigger template is from th esection of the middle og th eobject to roke out the width of the pod.

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Prototype optimisation

In this stage I extracted all the edges and measurements from my scale 3d design to use in fabrication, as I ex-plained in last page, I used fab lab to laser cut a scaffolding to help me work out the placement of each pipes or loops.

Sponge extrusions were added to the list of my material. As I had tested this material in older prototypes I fully un-derstood that sponge material with metal wire pierced-in would be a good a material to help the structure stay static. Also it is acting an s bone of my system.

This design will not be achievable unless all the measure-ment and joints are observed in fabrica-tion.it is crucial to make sure the length of the joints and Booleened part are addressed well in fab-rication to achieve the exact outcome as 3d model.

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These are images of my design that show the joints and intersections of the pipe curves. I used show edges command in rhino and asked for al edges, these photos were extremely important as if I made any mistake in mesurments of the distance of the joints, it could result in undoing the stiches as the error could effect on the structure noticeably. The length and the movements of each pipes and loop were affected by the joints, for example some part I had to sew the certain segment of the loop according to the mesurments in order to create a gap between pipes,and avoid clashing or collapsing them on each other. Please refer to the photos of page 14 &18. i mainly used analyse command on rhino to find the exact dictance between to joints.or the length of the gaps.

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2nd Skin final design

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This design is representing the system of skin and bone. Also it ad-dresses the spiral motion of my re-configured object and measured object of M 1. This design is consist of series of pipes that are placed and allocated purposefully to create a static design as well as adding aesthetic to the sleep pod design. This sleep pod is extremely comfort-able.it clearly expresses the idea of personal space.as the volume on top of the pod is around 40 cm which it gives the user of the pod privacy around it, if he/she lean over or back or sides.

The user of the design can enjoy complete privacy as well as feeling comfortable also there is enough space inside if he/she likes to use hand set/mobile or even. This is portable and as the fabric are soft a can be packed in bag to travel with. I believe it can be pulled down towards the lower body if the user is not very tall or big.

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Fabrication Sequence

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Assembly Drawing

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For me the assembly was the concepts of joints and connections between pipes. Also it can be concise in allocation of pipe in order to achieve the intended structure.

So it was extremely hard and challenging to do it individually as I needed someone to place the sleep pod on his/her head and start adding the joints.

Also the as it is clear in the photos the assembly of the parts needed an executive order to achieve the outcome.to consider was

In this design, I basically had 2 types of volume. First I had to design a volume which was pipes to create my proposed sleep pod vol-ume out of the initial objects (pipes).

It was extremely hard to fabricate for me as I could not use laser cutting or as such to extract information directly. Indeed I had to go through a lot of info extraction of my design and also create a template or scaffoldings to fabricate it. However, if I had flat surfaces, it would be easier to fabricate due to making the material ready via fab lab and just the matter of assembly.

For me the assembly stage required high observations and analysis of the digital design to extract exact measurements and exact details to translate it into fabrication stage. The design didn’t changed as much however the locations of the pipes have changed a bit to create more static to the object outcome.

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2nd Skin

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Appendix

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