Fabrication Institute: External

As part of my thesis project researching Fabrication and Tectonics, I experimented with fabric formed concrete. Not only modelling it, but creating a viable fabrication process, then developing a vascular building skeleton to demonstrate its potential.

Rhino + Grasshopper + Weaverbird + Kangaroo + Mesh Edit

www.tyrertecture.com

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Comment by Adam Holloway on June 5, 2012 at 11:04pm: Interesting paper. Is there more documentation of your project? It would be interesting to see how you mediated these local optima.

Comment by Nick Tyrer on June 3, 2012 at 3:26pm: haha i will take that as as compliment Daniel, though the screenshot paints an unflattering structural analogy. But it does look like my kind of game, downloading it now...

Comment by Daniel Piker on June 3, 2012 at 2:09pm: Nice!

reminds me a bit of one of my favourite games:

Comment by Nick Tyrer on June 3, 2012 at 2:01pm: Cemal, Without trying to sound ambiguous, some of the points are totally defined by the architectural forms I wanted, some totally randomly, and finally some were inserted according to structural optimization def.

Adam, The skeleton is optimized, but instead of a single global optimum; structure. It is a balance of optimizing to many local optima, structure, lighting, spatial constraints, fabrication etc.

Dimitrie Stefanescu has written a fantastic short essay, on the nature of optimization. Which is far more articulate and interesting than me, give it a read if you have 15mins free

http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1246#more-1246

Comment by Cemal Koray Bingol on June 2, 2012 at 2:06am: Looks nice, is there any logic in the point cloud or is it just random points?

Comment by ZhaoJun on June 1, 2012 at 10:10am: great work!

Comment by Adam Holloway on June 1, 2012 at 6:57am: Did you optimize the structure somehow? Or is it just relying on a network diagram?

Comment by Nick Tyrer on June 1, 2012 at 5:15am: *i forgot to mention the obvious final step of smoothing with weaverbird.

Comment by Nick Tyrer on June 1, 2012 at 5:14am: Thanks man, the skeleton works from a point cloud, where each point is connected to its neighbour, a basic force vector field analysis collects relevant data, then each node is lofted together. This one might explain it a bit more:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/fabrication-institute-skeleton?c...

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Comment by Chao Wei on June 1, 2012 at 5:01am: Very nice, just curious about the logic behind the skeleton? It is quite amazing if you only use GH without VB to achieve this kind of form. Again, very nice and congrats.