Breaking the Mold: Variable Vacuum Forming

Swackhamer, Marc; Satterfield, Blair

doi:10.52842/conf.acadia.2013.269

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“…Prominent architects such as Peter Cook, Toyo Ito and Frank Gehry have employed thermoforming of glass panes or plastic tiles in their work, however always with a deterministic goal to create a one-to-one replica of the mould and seldom with the research aim to explore emergent material properties and formations. Award winning Variable Vacuum Forming Wall (VarVac) by HouMinn Practice with Philip Bussey employed a low-cost strategy to create an acoustic wall for University of Minnesota School of Architecture (Swackhamer and Satterfield, 2013). Kine-Mould produced as a joint project between TU Delft and TU Eindhoven is a development for forming thermoplastic polymers as well as concrete elements (Schipper et al, 2014).…”

Section: Precedents Of Thermoforming In Architectural Research and Pr...mentioning

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Form D-Form - A design studio on digital fabrication and thermoforming

Symeonidou¹

2022

eCAADe Proceedings

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The paper discusses an experimental design and fabrication process which employs digital fabrication and thermoforming. It presents the outcomes of a postgraduate design studio which took place at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Although thermoforming is a well-known process for product and packaging design, it has not been extensively explored with regards to architectural applications. This research by design seeks to cast light on thermoforming combined with digital fabrication with the aim to devise new customized production strategies, that can afford the design and fabrication of unconventional geometric configurations.

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Section: Precedents Of Thermoforming In Architectural Research and Pr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Form D-Form - A design studio on digital fabrication and thermoforming

Symeonidou¹

2022

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From Undesired Flaws to Esthetic Assets: A Digital Framework Enabling Artistic Explorations of Erroneous Geometric Features of Robotically Formed Molds

Zboinska

2019

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Until recently, digital fabrication research in architecture has aimed to eliminate manufacturing errors. However, a novel notion has just been established—intentional computational infidelity. Inspired by this notion, we set out to develop means than can transform the errors in fabrication from an undesired complication to a creative opportunity. We carried out design experiment-based investigations, which culminated in the construction of a framework enabling fundamental artistic explorations of erroneous geometric features of robotically formed molds. The framework consists of digital processes, assisting in the explorations of mold errors, and physical processes, enabling the inclusion of physical feedback in digital explorations. Other complementary elements embrace an implementation workflow, an enabling digital toolset and a visual script demonstrating how imprecise artistic explorations can be included within the computational environment. Our framework application suggests that the exploration of geometrical errors aids the emergence of unprecedented design features that would not have arisen if error elimination were the ultimate design goal. Our conclusion is that welcoming error into the design process can reinstate the role of art, craft, and material agency therein. This can guide the practice and research of architectural computing onto a new territory of esthetic and material innovation.

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Breaking the Mold: Variable Vacuum Forming

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Form D-Form - A design studio on digital fabrication and thermoforming

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From Undesired Flaws to Esthetic Assets: A Digital Framework Enabling Artistic Explorations of Erroneous Geometric Features of Robotically Formed Molds

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