Fabricate 2014. Negotiating Design and Making

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This publication, launched in Zurich, February 2014, complements the FABRICATE 2014 International Conference. It features the works of all our selected speakers as well as a further selection of 16 projects from the peer reviewed call for works. The publication also includes interviews between the keynote speakers of FABRICATE 2011 and 2014. Topo-facade: envelope design and fabrication planning using topological mesh representations Robert Aish, Erik Verboon and Gustav Fagerström – Buro Happold [R]evolving Brick: Geometry and Performance Innovation in Ceramic Building Systems through Design Robotics Stefano Andreani and Martin Bechthold – Harvard University Multi-Scalar Shape Change In Pneumatically Steered Tensegrities: A Cross-Disciplinary Interest In Using Material-Scale Mechanisms For Driving Spatial Transform Phil Ayres, Kasper Stoy, David Stasiuk and Hollie Gibbons – CITA Ribbed Tile Vaulting – Innovation through two design-build workshops Philippe Block, Melonie Bayl-Smith, Tim Schork, David Pigram and James Bellamy – ETH Zurich & UTS Sydney Fabricating Behaviour: a Problem, a Solution, a Prototype and a Proposal William Bondin and Ruairi Glynn – Bartlett UCL Who’s afraid of fabrication? : Why teach digital fabrication now? Brennan Buck – Yale La Voûte de LeFevre: A Variable-Volume Compression-Only Vault Brandon Clifford and Wes Mcgee – MIT & Michigan Building Simplexity: Golden Moon, 2012 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Wonderland Kristof Crolla – The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Design of a Lunar Outpost:: 3D printing regolith as a construction technique for environmental shielding on the moon Xavier De Kestelier, Laurent Pambaguian, Enrico Dini, Valentina Colla and Giovanni Cesaretti – Foster+Partners , European Space Agency, Dshape, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna & Alta Printing Architecture: Castles Made of Sand Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer – ETH Zurich Fabricating architectural volume: Casting concrete, cutting stone, building with foam Jelle Feringa and Asbjørn Søndergaard – HYPERBODY, TU Delft & Aarhus School of Architecture Mesh-Mould: Robotically Fabricated Spatial Meshes as Reinforced Concrete Formwork Norman Hack, Lauer Willi, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Silke Langenberg – ETH Zürich The Mobile Orchard: Growing Ergonomic, Edible, Aerial Datascapes Alex Haw – Atmos Augmented Materiality: Modelling with Material Indeterminacy Ryan Luke Johns – Greyshed and Princeton University, United States perForming: Exploring Incremental Sheet Metal Forming Methods for Generating Low-cost, Highly Customized Components Ammar Kalo, Jake Newsum and Wes McGee – University of Michigan HygroSkin – Meteorosensitive Pavilion Oliver David Krieg, Zachary Christian, David Correa, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert, Katja Rinderspacher and Tobias Schwinn – Institute for Computational Design, Stuttgart University The Leadenhall Building. Design for Fabrication- Digital workflow and downstream fabrication system performance Dirk Krolikowski and Damian Eley – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners / UCL The Bartlett, School of Architecture & Arup FABbots: Research in Additive Manufacturing for architecture Marta Male-Alemany and Jordi Portell – IaaC Making with Flying Robots Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler ETH Zurich Anti-Gravity Additive Manufacturing Petr Novikov, Sasa Jokic, Luis E. Fraguada, Joris Laarman and Areti Markopoulou Silk Pavilion- A Case Study in Fiber-based Digital Fabrication Neri Oxman, Jared Laucks, Markus Kayser, Carlos David Gonzalez Uribe and Jorge Duro-Royo – MIT Media Lab Building Bytes: 3D Printed Bricks Brian Peters – College of Architecture and Environmental Design Kent State University & Design Lab Workshop Bloom, The Game Jose Sanchez and Alisa Andrasek – UCL Bartlett Balancing Complexity and Simplicity Jonathan Rabagliati, Clemens Huber and Dieter Linke – Foster+Partners & Wiehag & Seele Frozen Relic: Digitally ReFabricated Arctic Ice Floes Scanlab – UCL Bartlett Off-Road Fabrication: Architecture, Peripatetic Mobility and Machine Vision Mike Silver – Ball State University & University of Buffalo Bridging the gap from CAD to CAM: Concepts, caveats and a new Grasshopper Plug-in Hanno Stehling, Fabian Scheurer and Jean Roulier – Design to production The Rise – Building with Fibrous Systems Martin Tamke, David Stasiuk and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen – CITA (Fr)Agile Materiality: Approximating uncertain fabrication processes Kadri Tamre, Georg Grasser, Marjan Colletti and Allison Weiler – University of Innsbruck Fluid Crystallization: Hierarchical Self-Organization Skylar Tibbits – MIT Plastic-Cast Concrete: Fabrication as Applied Research Kenneth Tracy, Bradley Bell, Christine Yogiaman, Lavender Tessmer, Kevin McClellan, Andrew Vrana and Erik Verboon – Washington University in St. Louis, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas San Antonio & University of Houston’s College of Architecture & Buro Happold Engineering