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| Mobile mechanized platform with minimal environmental impact, capable of maneuvering complicated sites. Add some decent software and hardware to maintain precise positioning and a container of mud and insulation mixture. | Develop an FDM method for mud and attach it to a standard industrial robot with software to control print patterns, printing of supports and mud mixture. | Print whatever organic and site-specific structure you want without the local environment looking like a blast-zone. | ||
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The virtual nature of cad is both good and bad. If I carve a piece of wood the material continuously gives feedback, I learn from what I make. This happens in CAD too but on a much more abstract and detached level. Designing a facade, like the one in the image, one needs to know a lot about what is possible and what is not, else the design will be heavily compromised by the time it gets to production. |
More feedback from manufacturing facilities. The facade or structures company should develop little toys to help designers and quantity surveyor understand the possibilities and limitations of a production pipeline or method. -If i pull this part out and make the unit this high it would look great but the applet tells me it most likely will cause problems because the assembly-guy will have work on the units standing up rather than lying down. |
More creative freedom and more optimized designs through a tighter link with the materials and the assembly of components. More cost-effective collaboration between designer and maker. This is about capturing the knowledge of the specialist and making it available to the generalist. |