Fabricating Customization

Riding a robot video

totally not suggesting we try it.

…maybe with a hamster

The surfaces were made from blending straight lines with curvalinear and orthogonal lines. These formed a variety of distances between lines that influences the amount of “stretch” in a given sheet. As the sheets are stretched in different directions, it rises and falls like a landform.

The joint unit were created through adjacent circles with slots inserted to fit within each other. When laid out on a flat surfaces, the gaps between the units create open curves that flow based on a how each unit lays next to each other. When the joints are fit in perpendicular they rise up off the ground plane to begin defining its form in three dimensions.

Soon enough construction sites all over the world will be able to employ the services of a mobile digital fabrication unit, simply shipped to site, and set to constantly churn out and even possibly assemble customized architecture. The images below are from Gramazio & Kohler Architecture, and they depict the R.O.B., a mobile digital fabrication unit.

More at http://www.dfab.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/forschung/135.html

Inside unit (c) Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich

Loading unto flatbed truck (c) Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich

Resting on Site (c) Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich

3d print your very own working handcuff key

.stl file is on the website.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/working_printed_handcuff_key.html