Msc3workshop:workshop01
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Design to Robotic Production
- Continuous Variation Workshop Series: Scalable Porosity
- 6th to 17th of October 2014
- TU Delft, Hyperbody
Introduction
Continuous variation is a series of workshops aimed at integrating different modes and methods of robotic fabrication into computational design processes in order to explore porosity and multi-materiality in architectural building systems. The first workshop, “Scalable Porosity”, focuses on developing design to production methods for introducing porosities at different layers and scales, ranging from micro levels, as material systems, to macro levels as spatial, structural and architectural configurations.
In general terms, porosity indicates the relationship between positive and negative, in other words, void spaces in materials, and is usually represented as a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume (percentage). Porosity can be found in natural and artificial systems explored within, among others material, biological, engineering, and earth sciences. Depending on material system porosity may have changing patterns and may occur at different scales, which is the focus of this experimental design exploration.
The aim is to develop material patterns that by additive layering will generate variable porosities. In principle, these patterns may address a range of scales, where voids may vary in ranges of, to the building scale, where voids may vary in ranges of meter, indicating inhabitable spaces. Due to production process constraints within this exercise, the focus will be on the porosity ranges millimetre to centimeter achieved by means of robotic multi-material deposition.
