Design for Environment and Form Findings Through Digital Fabrication

Abstract

The material processing for the needs of architectural, interior and furniture products were done manually all this time. Woodworking machinery (one of them is CNC) and CAD-based software were only been maximized as supporting tools to increase the speed of working process, resulting the outcome products were limited to manual working outcome only. This recent research on form processing aims to maximize the optimal use of material in the contexts of achieving structural ability and complex form. Plywood material becomes the focus in this research, due to its most frequent use in architecture, interior, and product design. With its texture that resembles the characteristics of original wood and its sheet-shaped form, this plywood material is easy to process and environmentally friendly. Digital fabrication enables the designer in design process and simulation through software to shorten the prototyping process which usually took loads of materials, thus can reduce the materials waste. The project that presented is an example of design production with physical examples.

The use of minimal surface principles and multiplex joinery system for designing post-disaster construction systems

“…The sectioning, tessellation method, and material process through CNC machine and computer help the designer resolves the limitations of size (one sheet of plywood (the average size of one Plywood sheet is 1.20 x 2.40m). Table contents show the assessment results by using the rubric of DfE (Indrawan 2017). Plywood, as the main construction material, has a different potential through the digital fabrications approach.…”

“…Digital fabrication, as well as orthographic projection, is a tool to communicate ideas (Indrawan 2017). Though the method of material processing through digital fabrication requires the designers to have more involvement in the process, the working process is more simplified.…”