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Digital Design + Fabrication Workshop: Forms of Shell + Lace
- When: Thursday, 15 April 2010, from 10:45am
- Where: Waseda U. Nishi-waseda Campus, Bldg 57,B1F Studio.
- Registration: Please register online below.
- Participation Fee: ¥2000 (includes entry to Lecture from 6:30pm)
- Lecture-only Fee: ¥500 (6:30-8:00pm)
- Eligibility: Open
- To Bring: Laptop PC, Rhino (3D modeling software – trial version here).
- Contact: Julian Worrall
- Poster: To download, click here.
Digital modeling, coupled with laser-cutting fabrication, can now produce complex organic form quickly and cheaply. Structural optimization enables minimal wastage, putting structure only where it is needed. Like shells, which gain strength from curvilinear geometry but grow material only where structurally necessary, organic forms can be daring, flamboyant, yet optimum structures. Using lessons taken from tailoring, we can build these forms from thin layers of flat sheet material, which when cut into patterns and pieced back together, creates a strong three-dimensional form.
The workshop will transform sheet materials such as paper, cardboard, and metal into light-weight and strong structures. We will design and model digitally a series of curvilinear shell structures, flatten them into a cutting pattern, laser-cut them from a sheet material, then join them together to form a physical model. In addition, we will perforate the material to minimise weight and wastage. The perforation pattern would be based on the structural modeling, so that maximum perforation occurs where the structure does not require material strength.
Successful models from the workshop will culminate in a display in a window on Regent Street as part of the Nash Ramblas project for the London Festival of Architecture 2010. The structures will also explore an interactive feature that will embrace “The Welcoming City” theme for the Festival. The team will consist of architects and structural engineers, together with a fashion designer, a model-maker, and students with Rhino 3-d digital modeling program skills.
Workshop Leaders: Anna Liu + Mike Tonkin, Directors, Tonkin Liu (UK) and Instructor, Architecture Association, London.
Anna Liu
After graduating from Smith College with a liberal arts degree, Anna worked in New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, before completing her Master of Architecture at Columbia University. On arriving in London in 1997 she worked for Arup Associates and taught as a diploma unit tutor at the University of North London. She qualified as an architect in 2001, and set up Tonkin Liu with Mike Tonkin. Together they have taught for four years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Registration: Please register your attendance online here.
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