Parasympathy is an interactive spatial experience operating as an extension of visitors’ minds. By integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), wearable technologies, affective computing (Picard 1995; Picard 2003), and neuroscience, this project blurs the lines ...

Inkjet printing has become abundantly available to businesses, offi ces, and households ever since its commercialization in the late 1980s. Although roughly forty years have passed, the desktop printer is still limited to printing on thin fl at surfaces, mainl...

Meristem Wall is a prototype for a 3D-printed building envelope, featuring a dynamically controllable network of integrated air channels that allow a fl uid and adaptive relationship between inside and outside. The wall integrates functional lighting and elect...

This paper describes a custom robotic process for semi-autonomous survey and layout of architectural elements for a large-scale renovation project. Specifically, the research presents a custom single-task robotic device accompanied with software and workflow m...

This paper discusses recent developments on the geometric construction and fabrication techniques associated with large-scale surface disclinations. The basic concept of disclinations recognizes the role of “defects” in the composition of materials, the stra...

Recent decades have seen the development of increasingly powerful digital modeling and fabrication tools applied to the creation of molds or formwork for cast or formed materials. Many of these processes are highly customizable but resource intensive, singular...

This design research reimagines the architectural detail in a postdigital framework and proposes digital methods to work upon discrete tectonics. Drawing upon Marco Frascari's writing The Tell-the-Tale Detail, the study aims to reimagine tectonic thinking for ...

Academic papers are full of final drawings and diagrams but gloss over process work, “less glamorous” images, and the amount of time and labor behind a fi nal product. Certain skills and expertise cannot be taught but are instead collected from years of pers...

Positioned at the intersection of the computational modes of design and production, this research explains the principles and applications of a novel fabrication-informed geometric system called nesting. Applying the nesting fabrication method, the authors rei...

Arbor is a data spatialization of the urban forest of Palo Alto, California. The sculptural installation consists of 120 ribs arranged radially within King Plaza fronting Palo Alto City Hall. It uses the database of over 45,000 public trees in the city’s Open...

The circumstances of the pandemic resulted in the closure of collective maker spaces and university fab labs. This disruption to machine access had consequences for design studio curricula which shifted to online and digital formats. In response, an experiment...

MindSculpt enables users to generate a wide range of hybrid geometries in Grasshopper in real-time simply by thinking about those geometries. This design tool combines a non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) with the parametric design platform Grasshopp...

June 15 of this year 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Eduardo Torroja. Without a doubt, one of the best tributes to this distinguished Spanish engineer, who founded the International Association for Shell Structures in 1959, is to remind him pre...

Torroja excelled as a designer, as a docent, as a code-maker and as a founder of technical associations. Nothing was conceded to improvisation. Every outcome of his thought was the mature fruit of deep reflections; of precise knowledge of the problem's formula...

Location of Project: Dee Why, NSW, Australia<br/> Structural Type: Prefabricated thin concrete shell <br/> Project Scale: Length 30 m, width 15.5 m, height 12 m <br/> Owner/Client: Warringah Catholic Parish <br/> Architect: Gibbons &amp...

The large impact of building structures on the environment must be reduced to meet the global targets fixed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Standard building structures with constant prismatic cross-section have material inefficiencies of aro...

This paper deals with the numerical impact analysis of tubular thin-walled steel-made elements with induced folding for energy dissipation application. The excellent deceleration of the impacting mass of axial collapsing structures favors their use in energy d...

The Sports Palace of Mexico City was built in 1968 and became a turning point in the design and construction of laminar shells, leading the transition from reinforced concrete to metallic grid structures. Felix Candela observed that the use of concrete in desi...

Through 3d printing, cellulose-based biopolymers undergo a two-staged hybrid fabrication process, where initial rapid forming is followed by a slower secondary stage of curing. During this curing large quantities of water are evaporated from the material which...

As the demand for technologies that mediate the environment continues to rise, day-to-day activities have been increasingly overloaded with devices that collect personal signals, such as phones, watches, jewelry, and fitness trackers. Yet, despite the sensibil...