Current methods for simulation assume single scale engagement across separate phases and exclude the simulation of material and fabrication processes. Recent research identifies new opportunities for simulation to link the design of material with the design of structures. This creates new implications for material deployment that necessitate new methods for analysing, specifying and controlling fabrication.
The topic is tackled in the innochain Workpackage 4, which will examine how simulation can be used as a means to cross between scales and synthesise material performances with machine-driven processes.
The Workpackage is lead by the KTH School of Architecture.
research projects
ESR06- MULTI SCALAR MODELLING FOR BUILDING DESIGN
Author: Paul Poinet
Industrial Partners: Buro Happold, designtoproduction. Investigating multi scale modelling principles for architectural design. Multi-scale modelling is an interdisciplinary research topic in which systems are modelled at multiple scales and interfaced enabling the modelling of low scale systems to parametrisise and inform high scale systems . The project investigates multi scalar modelling as a means to support iterative build-up of knowledge in the design process in which highly specified material simulations interface with open ended design models. read more
Keywords: · Multi Scalar Modelling · simulation · timber
ESR07- GEOMETRY-INDUCED VARIABLE STIFFNESS STRUCTURES
Author: Efilena Baseta
Load bearing structures generally show preferred directions for channelling internal forces that depend on geometry and prevailing support conditions (anisotropy). Current material practice does not take advantage of anisotropic material properties. read more
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ESR08- VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING FRP
Author: James Solly
Current practice uses digital fabrication technologies to optimise standardised fabrication processes. Often accompanied by trial-and-error approaches, the limits of digital fabrication methods are quickly reached without a thorough understanding of the strength and limits of the forming processes and the materials. read more
Keywords: · CFRP · Coreless Filament Winding · ESR08 · GFRP · itke · Robotic · Stuttgart
ESR09- SIMULATING CONCRETE FORMWORK
Author: Vasily Sitnikov
The PhD student will investigate and develop methods for the simulation of formwork in architecture. This will entail research into the transformation between states of fluidity and solidity germane to casting, the dynamic relationship between casting material, formwork and environmental factors, and the architectural possibilities and consequences. read more
Keywords: · Buro Huppold · concrete casting · digital simulation · KTH · material performance · nonrepetitive ?fabrication
ESR10- SIMULATING ROBOTIC FEEDBACK
Author: Giulio Brugnaro
This project investigates real-time and real-matter feedback in robotic manufacturing for design. read more
Keywords: · carving · craftsmanship · fabrication · Machine Learning · robotics
ARTICLES
Bend&Block
Author: Efilena Baseta
Bend&Block is a material system whose deformation depends on internal geometrical configurations. The aim is to create a structural system that is flexible when it is flat and stiff when it is deformed. This way, curved elements can be easily formed from flat components which bend and block at a predefined configuration, eliminating the... read more
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Lecture at University of Bologna: Reversible self-formation process based on geometry-induced variable stiffness structures
Author: Efilena Baseta
On the 7th of June at 15:00 Efilena Baseta will present her research on ‘Reversible self-formation process based on geometry-induced variable stiffness structures’ in the Aula Magna of the School of Engineering and Architecture – University of Bologna . Special thanks to Prof.Ing. Alessio Erioli for the organization of the event. read more
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Paper Award for Elytra Filament Pavilion
Author: James Solly
The ITKE and ICD have been awarded the Publication Prize of the University of Stuttgart 2017 for their paper “Elytra Filament Pavilion: Robotic Filament Winding for Structural Composite Building Systems” which was presented at the Fabricate 2017 Conference in Stuttgart. The award was presented to the paper authors, Marshall Prado, Moritz Dörstelmann, James Solly (Innochain... read more
Digital Design & Full Scale Fabrication Course – IoA
Author: Efilena Baseta
CONTROLLED ACTIVE BENDING STRUCTURES “The form is a system which organises itself in the presences of both internal and external forces and these organizations can shape patterns traced through mathematical rules.” D’ Arcy Thompson In this framework, this 5-days course focuses on the creation of controllable, dynamic, active-bending timber structures, using loads as the actuators.... read more
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Open Lecture TU Graz : Adaptive structures and material performance
Author: Efilena Baseta
This week Efilena Baseta visited TU Graz as a jury member of the midterm presentation of the studio ”Break it till you Make it” led by Urs Hirschberg. The students focus on experimenting on various materialities of wood with the final goal of building an 1:1 info point. After the reviews followed the open lecture on ”Adaptive Structures and... read more
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Blumer Lehmann secondment
Author: Efilena Baseta
The last months I have been working on scaling up the micro-scalar (1 dm) dynamic behavior of wood veneer into macroscalar dynamic wooden structures (10m) exploring controlled bending-active systems. From the 6th till the 18th of November I conducted my secondment in Blumer Lehman in Gossau, Switzerland with the aim to construct... read more
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