Table of Contents
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