Fabricate

FOREWORD BY THE EDITORS

Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Silke Langenberg

FOREWORD BY THE INITIATORS OF THE FABRICATE CONFERENCE SERIES

Bob Sheil, Ruairi Glynn

CHALLENGING THE THRESHOLDS

MARIO CARPO IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHIAS KOHLER

RIBBED TILE VAULTING: INNOVATION THROUGH TWO DESIGN-BUILD WORKSHOPS

Philippe Block, Melonie Bayl-Smith, Tim Schork, James Bellamy, Dave Pigram

WHO’S AFRAID OF FABRICATION? WHY TEACH DIGITAL FABRICATION NOW?

Brennan Buck

TOPO-FAÇADE: ENVELOPE DESIGN AND FABRICATION PLANNING USING TOPOLOGICAL MESH REPRESENTATIONS

Gustav Fagerström, Erik Verboon, Robert Aish

BALANCING COMPLEXITY AND SIMPLICITY

Jonathan Rabagliati, Clemens Huber, Dieter Linke

BRIDGING THE GAP FROM CAD TO CAM: CONCEPTS, CAVEATS AND A NEW GRASSHOPPER PLUG-IN

Hanno Stehling, Fabian Scheurer, Jean Roulier

BUILDING SIMPLEXITY: GOLDEN MOON, 2012 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL LANTERN WONDERLAND

Kristof Crolla

THE LEADENHALL BUILDING: DESIGN FOR FABRICATION-DIGITAL WORKFLOW AND DOWNSTREAM FABRICATION SYSTEM

Dirk Krolikowski, Damian Eley

FABRICATING ARCHITECTURAL VOLUME: STEREOTOMIC INVESTIGATIONS IN ROBOTIC CRAFT

Jelle Feringa, Asbjørn Søndergaard

MATERIAL EXUBERANCE

VIRGINIA SAN FRATELLO AND RONALD RAEL IN CONVERSATION WITH NERI OXMAN

PRINTING ARCHITECTURE: CASTLES MADE OF SAND

Benjamin Dillenburger, Michael Hansmeyer

BLOOM

Jose Sanchez, Alisa Andrasek

PLASTIC-CAST CONCRETE: FABRICATION AS APPLIED RESEARCH

Kenneth Tracy, Brad Bell, Christine Yogiaman, Lavender Tessmer, Kevin McClellan, Andrew Vrana, Erik Verboon

BUILDING BYTES: 3D-PRINTED BRICKS

Brian Peters

THE MOBILE ORCHARD: GROWING ERGONOMIC, EDIBLE, AERIAL DATASCAPES

Alex Haw

SEARCH FOR A ROOTED AESTHETIC: STUDY IN SPIN-VALENCE

Emily Baker

THE RISE: BUILDING WITH FIBROUS SYSTEMS

Martin Tamke, David Stasiuk, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

LA VOÛTE DE LEFEVRE: A VARIABLE-VOLUME COMPRESSION-ONLY VAULT

Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee

FORMING MACHINES

ACHIM MENGES IN CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP BEESLEY

PERFORMING. EXPLORING INCREMENTAL SHEET METAL FORMING METHODS FOR GENERATING LOW-COST, HIGHLY CUSTOMISED COMPONENTS

Ammar Kalo, Michael Jake Newsum, Wes McGee

(FR)AGILE MATERIALITY. APPROXIMATING UNCERTAIN FABRICATION PROCESSES

Kadri Tamre, Marjan Colletti, Georg Grasser, Allison Weiler

(R)EVOLVING BRICK. GEOMETRY AND PERFORMANCE INNOVATION IN CERAMIC BUILDING SYSTEMS THROUGH DESIGN ROBOTICS

Stefano Andreani, Martin Bechthold

ANTI-GRAVITY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Joris Laarman, Saša Jokic´, Petr Novikov, Luis E. Fraguada, Areti Markopoulou

THE DESIGN OF A LUNAR OUTPOST. 3D PRINTING REGOLITH AS A CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SHIELDING ON THE MOON

Xavier De Kestelier, Enrico Dini, Giovanni Cesaretti, Valentina Colla, Laurent Pambaguian

FABbots. RESEARCH IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR ARCHITECTURE

Marta Malé-Alemany, Jordi Portell

AUGMENTED MATERIALITY. MODELLING WITH MATERIAL INDETERMINACY

Ryan Luke Johns

MESH-MOULD. ROBOTICALLY FABRICATED SPATIAL MESHES AS CONCRETE FORMWORK AND REINFORCEMENT

Norman Hack, Willi Viktor Lauer, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Silke Langenberg

LIVING ASSEMBLIES

NEIL GERSHENFELD IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK BURRY

PERIPATETIC FABRICATION. ARCHITECTURE, CO-ROBOTICS AND MACHINE VISION

Mike Silver

SILK PAVILION. A CASE STUDY IN FIBRE-BASED DIGITAL FABRICATION

Neri Oxman, Jared Laucks, Markus Kayser, Jorge Duro-Royo, Carlos Gonzales Uribe

MULTI-SCALAR SHAPE CHANGE IN PNEUMATICALLY STEERED TENSEGRITIES. A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INTEREST IN USING MATERIAL-SCALE MECHANISMS FOR DRIVING SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Phil Ayres, Kasper Stoy, David Stasiuk, Hollie Gibbons

BUILDING WITH FLYING ROBOTS

Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler

HYGROSKIN. METEOROSENSITIVE PAVILION

Oliver David Krieg, Zachary Christian, David Correa, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert, Katja Rinderspacher, Tobias Schwinn

FABRICATING BEHAVIOUR. A PROBLEM, A SOLUTION, A PROTOTYPE AND A PROPOSAL

William Bondin, Ruairi Glynn

FROZEN RELIC. DIGITALLY REFABRICATED ARCTIC ICE FLOES

Matthew Shaw, William Trossell

FLUID CRYSTALLISATION. HIERARCHICAL SELF-ORGANISATION

Skylar Tibbits

AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES