Monthly Archive for November, 2011

Hyperbody Workshop on Robotic Fabrication

robotic fabrication ac9b173bab 250x357 Hyperbody Workshop on Robotic FabricationWes McGee to teach a work­shop with Dave Pigram on Robotic Fab­ri­ca­tion as part of the Hyper­body Work­shop Series at TU Delft.

The work­shop with Wes McGee [ mat­ter design stu­dioTaub­mann Col­lege of Archi­tec­ture ] and Dave Pigram [ super­manou­vre / uni­ver­sity of tech­nol­ogy syd­ney] explores the idea of funic­u­lar struc­tures cou­pled with the robotic hotwire cut­ting process. Hotwire cut­ting is a highly effec­tive and rel­a­tively novel approach to the pro­duc­tion of vol­ume and is highly effec­tive in the pro­duc­tion of vol­u­met­ric ele­ments of EPS foam. The work­shop explores the poten­tial of EPS form­work while revis­it­ing the idea of half-timber struc­tures. Part of the form­work will be come struc­tural, part of it remains within the struc­ture, part of the form­work will be dis­posed off / recycled.

The work­shop is open to a lim­ited num­ber of exter­nal stu­dents at a rea­son­able fee of €150, includ­ing work­shop materials.