WORKSHOPS
Workshops: October 24 - 26, 2016 | University of Michigan Taubman College | Ann Arbor, Michigan
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance
PANEL DISCUSSION
FABRICATED, a panel discussion, will mark the close of the 2016 ACADIA workshops and the launch of the conference. The panel will be comprised of workshop leaders Brandon Clifford, Matt Jezyk, Dave Pigram and Lauren Vasey, and moderated by workshop co-chairs and Taubman College assistant professors Wes McGee and Catie Newell. After a brief reflection on the workshops that have just completed, the conversation will focus on the current and future works of the panelist as it relates to the 2016 ACADIA theme Posthuman Frontiers. At the conclusion of the workshops, the Taubman College FABLab will be open for tours from 5-6pm.
WORKSHOP 01 - Adaptive Spatially Extruded Structures
Workshop Leaders:
David Jenny (Gramazio&Kohler Research, ITA, ETH Zurich)
Dave Pigram (supermanoeuvre & NCCR Digital Fabrication, BRG, ETH Zurich)
Description:
This workshop combines the use of spatial extrusion, collaborative robotics, real-time scanning and adaptive part variation to explore the generation of adaptive frame structures extruded in midair. The third in a three part series (Rob|Arch 2016, Sydney; Advanced Architectural Geometry 2016, Zurich; ACADIA 2016) this installment focuses on the design potential of encoded feedback responses to dimensional errors during the production process.
Building upon the Mesh Mould research project developed at the ETH Zurich in close collaboration with Sika Technology AG (Patent Publication No. WO/2015/034438) we will explore the constraints and opportunities that come with non-layer based 3D printing processes.
This process capitalises on the strengths of industrial robots - precision in space and time - while working strategically with their limited payload by deploying minimal material for maximal geometric definition.
The workshop will demonstrate the stages from algorithmic design in rhino python via custom control software to the automated generation of instruction code and the feedback of empirical material behavior back into the generative code.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Machine / Hardware / Materials:
2 x KUKA KR2700HA
1D Laser Scanner
Custom Extruder and PLC, Laser Rangefinder
PETG Carbon Fibre Filament
Software:
Rhinoceros 3D, superMatterTools
Previous knowledge required:
Rhino modelling and Python coding is an advantage
Participants to bring:
Laptops with Rhino 5 installed and RhinoPython loaded. Required code libraries will be distributed via GitHub.
Image Credit:
Image: Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich
WORKSHOP 02 - Floating Megalith
Workshop Leaders:
Brandon Clifford (MIT, Matter Design)
Description:
A great deal of speculation surrounds how early civilizations transported megaliths from quarry to site. Evidence suggests that some were transported via water. The animation of these masses must have been quite a spectacle. In order to choreograph such a performance, the creator must become in-tune with the mass and buoyancy—calculations that are simultaneously dependent and independent of form. In the contemporary digital terrain, designers are no longer relegated to exclusively producing representations of architectural intent; however, the rediscovered reciprocity between drawing and making (virtual and physical) folds in a series of extra-disciplinary concerns designers can synchronize with—such as gravity. This workshop seeks to master the calibration of form, mass, and buoyancy to perform megalithic action in water; in turn, exercising the designer’s ability to resolve complex relationships via physics. While this workshop does not advocate architects should become naval engineers, it seeks to exercise this reciprocity in order to better bridge the gap between the virtual and physical world in order to better construct our future.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Machine / Hardware / Materials:
CNC milling / Foam / Other
Software:
Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Mastercam
Previous knowledge required:
3d modeling
Participants to bring:
Laptop/computers
WORKSHOP 03 - Robotic Softness: Behavioural Fabrication Process of Woven Structures
Workshop Leaders:
Lauren Vasey (ICD / University of Stuttgart)
Giulio Brugnaro (ICD ITECH Alumnus, University of Stuttgart / UCL, The Bartlett School of Architecture)
Description:
This workshop will introduce workshop participants to the notion of “Robotic Softness”, intended as a flexible, adaptable and evolving framework for robotic fabrication in which the design unfolds together with the fabrication process through constant feedback between the robot, the design environment, and real-time sensor data. Behavioural strategies for robotic fabrication will be used to allow the robot to weave three-dimensional woven structures inspired by the construction logic used by the weaverbird during the construction of its nest. During the workshop an integrative computational tool, a custom weaving end-effector and integrated sensing strategy (based on 3d scanning procedures utilizing Kinect), will be used by the participants to enable the production of small scale woven prototypes. These prototypes will not be entirely predescribed in a digital model but will rather emerge from the constant negotiation between fabrication parameters, material properties, site conditions and design intentions.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Machine / Hardware / Materials:
KUKA KR60s + RSI Module. A custom weaving effector will be provided by the workshop leaders. The material used will be Rattan
Software:
Rhino, Grasshopper. Basic knowledge with Python scripting is preferable but not required.
Participants to bring:
Laptops with Rhino, Grasshopper already installed. Further plugins and custom components will be distributed at the workshop.
WORKSHOP 04 - Interactive Textiles
Workshop Leaders:
Sean Ahlquist, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Andy Payne, Autodesk, Inc.
Description:
This workshop will focus on the development of textiles, using the FabLab’s CNC knitting machine, as dynamic interfaces with embedded sensing and feedback. This will involve the introduction to the methods of CNC knitting, programming with Arduino and connecting to Rhino/Grasshopper through the plug-in Firefly. The intent will be to develop and fabricate one medium-to-large scale CNC knitted prototype with embedded sensors which leverage the ability of textiles as flexible, tactile interfaces, to re-imagine concepts of interaction and visualization. Each team will develop innovative interactive visualizations; using the larger knitted textile as a generator of form and sensory feedback.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Machine / Hardware / Materials:
CNC Knitting
Arduino and related sensing hardware (hardware to be provided)
Software:
Rhino
Grasshopper with Firefly
Arduino
Previous knowledge required:
Participants are encouraged to come with experience in textiles OR Rhino/Grasshopper OR Arduino.
Participants to bring:
n/a
WORKSHOP 05 - Multi-species Optimization of Long Span Wooden Structures
Workshop Leaders:
Nathan King, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design, Center for Design Research
Nick Cote, Design Robotics Researcher, Strategic Innovation - Office of the CTO, Autodesk
Matt Jezyk, Senior Product Line Manage, AEC Conceptual Design, Autodesk
Gustav Fagerstrom, Digital Practice Leader, Walter P. Moore Engineering
Steve Lewis, Specialty Structures Leader, Walter P Moore Engineering
Description:
Within the context of wood material systems, emerging computational design, fabrication, and analysis technologies present new challenges and opportunities. Wood is an Orthotropic – also known as anisotropic – material and exhibits different behavior in different directions. This behavior presents a challenge for engineering design but also, in the context of computational design, represents an opportunity for advanced structural performance optimization. In recent years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) and topological optimization techniques have aligned with the perceived demand for and the promise of technically feasible infinitely customizable cellular structure and ushered in new paradigms in AEC related material and process research. These factors, when explored through the lens of computational workflows and robotic fabrication, present interesting and relatively underexplored opportunities.
This workshop proposes the application of multispecies optimization techniques through the design, construction, and analysis of a robotically fabricated structure. The workshop expands on collaborative research efforts between Autodesk, The Virginia Tech Center for Design Research, and MASS Design Group and utilizes the newly developed integrated DynamoTM-to- Oasys GSA-to- Robotic Fabrication workflow. Through the design, optimization, analysis, assembly, and evaluation of a prototypical multi-species hybrid structure the cluster will uncover new potential for computational design in wood material systems while presenting a microcosm for the broader context of functionally gradient materials in buildings. This workshop expands on workshops conducted by this team at RobArch2016 (Dynamo-BUILD!) and SG2016 (Logjam) and incorporates advanced computational functionality, post-construction deflected shape analysis.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
WORKSHOP 06 - Design Space Construction – Defining, optimizing, and communicating performance-based building design spaces
Workshop Leaders:
John Haymaker, Perkins+Will
Hakim Hasan, Perkins+Will
Mohammad Asl, Autodesk
Wei Yan, Texas A&M University
Description:
Today’s building design challenges require multidisciplinary teams to systematically define and search through design spaces, understand and optimize tradeoffs, and make and communicate transparent, performance-based decisions. In this session, participants will learn a methodology and associated tools for formulating, executing, and reporting the performance of their design spaces. They will learn to:
- Formulate a design space, including Objectives, Alternatives, Impacts, and Value.
- Create a parametric model exploring building form and materials
- Define energy, program, and cost analysis.
- Explore a design space, including understanding importance and sensitivity of design parameters.
- Define a value equation, and optimize the building design
- Report the results into an online database capable of storing and comparing design spaces.
Participants will also learn how to engage in a collaborative multidisciplinary practice-informed research and teaching project aimed at discovering and improving performance-based design space exploration methods.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Software:
Dynamo OR Grasshopper, Select Plug ins
Previous knowledge required:
Beginning Grasshopper or Dynamo
Participants to bring:
Computer loaded with Either Dynamo or Grasshopper.
WORKSHOP 07 - Computational BIM in Practice
Workshop Leaders:
Konrad K Sobon - Grimshaw Architects
Nate Holland - NBBJ
Description:
This three day workshop will focus on practical applications of computational tools in every day architectural/engineering practice. During the workshop, participants will be guided through a set of design and documentation tasks while learning how to utilize tools like Dynamo and Grasshopper to automate them. With examples inspired by issues encountered in practice, the workshop will explore topics including designing with geometric constraints, constructability, data interoperability, automation, custom analysis, and project team collaboration. Finally during this workshop, participants will get to know the insider's tips and tricks about what it means to be part of the computational design community, where to go for help, guidance and how to "pay forward" to the next generation of architectural tool makers.
AIA member attendees will receive a total of 18 LU/HSW CEUs for the full three days of workshop attendance.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Rhinoceros and Autodesk Revit. Participants should be familiar with at least one of Dynamo and Grasshopper, including basic concepts of scripting and geometry. Designers new to scripting should prepare with tutorials and learning resources for Dynamo and Grasshopper, which can be found online.
Hardware Requirements:
Bring your own laptop with the required software installed. Any machine capable of running these programs is sufficient.
Software Requirements:
Revit 2016 or 2017, Rhino 5 x64, Grasshopper 0.76, Dynamo 1.2, Excel
Image Credits:
Image: Nate Holland, Advance Autodesk sample project in Revit