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Speckle.xyz – first Innochain software artefact released
Feb 29, 2016. Innochain ESRs Dimitrie A. Stefanescu has released a first software artefact related to Innochain – Speckle. Speckle allows users to quickly share Grasshopper 3d models online through just one double click.
Innochain ESRs work on Robot-Build Pavillion for the V&A in London
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Feb 29, 2016
Robot-Build Pavillion for the V&A in London
The Innochain ESRs at ITKE in Stuttgart are collaborating with Achim Menges and Jan Knippers on the design and fabrication of the Elytra Filament Pavilion. The undulating and web-like structure of the canopy will be based on the...
ESR15 – SMALL SCALE ROBOTIC MANUFACTURING FOR THE LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS
Digital fabrication presumes prefabrication and off-site production. This has vast implications on the environment and building practice as a whole, as transportation increases energy consumption and carbon footprint and logistics necessitate a building logic based on elements effecting problems of tolerances and loosing structural and thermal advantages of monolithic structures while increasing costs and limiting the size of elements.
ESR14- DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY
Industrial Partners: designtoproduction, Bluhmer Lehmann. One of the central achievements of digital chain is the ability to mass customise building elements creating individualised solutions and enabling new kinds of building geometries. While methods for the design and production of customised elements have matured, the planning of assembly procedures remains undeveloped in the building sector – in contrast to for example to product design .
ESR13- APPLIED ROBOTICS – CONTROLLED MATERIAL DEPOSITION
Industrial modelling clay plays an important role in automotive design when modelling ‘class-A’ surfaces. Design studios around the world use it to prototype vehicles at a 1:1 scale, combining several technologies: sculpting, CAD freeform surface modelling, 3D scanning and CNC machining. This research investigates the use of this material for additive manufacturing.
ESR12- MATERIAL GRADIENT FRP
Current practices emphasise the stiffness of material to ensure structural performance. Building systems such as louvers or other adjustable shading systems and employ mechanical means to activate change.