DG4102 Digital Fabrication Syllabus:
DG4102 Digital Fabrication Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To give exposure to various digital production tools to build artefacts as part of creative design process.
To give knowledge about utilizing prototyping and modelling as a design medium that supports the full spectrum of digital design as a paperless process.
To give knowledge about fabrication process in Digital Architecture as a way to bring software models into reality.
UNIT I MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES
Plastics & Composites- Polymers, Thermoplastics, Honeycomb materials. Wood and Fibrous Materials ‐ Case Studies and Application, Laminated wood products, Veneers, Steam bent members.
Metals and Ceramics ‐ Case Studies and Applications – Steel, Aluminium, Alloys ‐ Ceramic Hybrids ‐ Production and Fabrication Standards.
UNIT II ADDITIVE FABRICATION PROCESSES
Additive Fabrication Processes Case Studies ‐ Fused Deposition Processes ‐ Injection Molding, Roto‐Molding‐ Casting Technologies ‐ 3D Printing (SLA, SLS, FDM)
UNIT III SUBTRACTIVE FABRICATION PROCESSES
Subtractive Fabrication Processes Case Studies ‐ Laser Cutting [vaporization cutting and industrial manufacturing] ‐ Water Jet Processes ‐ CNC 3, 5, & 7 Axis Milling, Cutting, Planing, Drilling.
UNIT IV TRANSFORMATIVE FABRICATION & MASS PRODUCTION MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Transformative Fabrication Processes Case Studies- Methods of Factory‐Based production
UNIT V EXPERIMENTAL FABRICATION PROCESSES
Experimental Fabrication Processes Case Studies ‐ Biological Growth Formation ‐ Crystal Structure Formation ‐ Explosion Forming ‐ Muscle Wire and Self‐Assembling Structures
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES
Awareness to the machines, different methods of fabrication and the workability with materials.
Ability to correlate between the design processes and Digital Prototype or Model attributes.
REFERENCES
1. Branko Kolarevic and Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, 2014
2. Digital Fabrication, Paul Andersen, David Salomon, Sanford Kwinter, David Carson, Architecture of Patterns, W. W. Norton & Co, 2010
3. Heino Engel, Structure Systems, 1997
4. Lisa Iwamoto, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
5. BrankoKolarevic, Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, London: Taylor & Francis, 2005
6. Bob Shiel, Ruairi Glynn, Fabricate: Making Digital Architecture, Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press, 2011
7. Emergent Design Group, Morphogenetic Design Strategies AD, 2004
8. FarshidMoussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan R. Ludwig and Ahmadreza Schricker, The Function of Form
9. RivkaOxman and Robert Oxman, The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies
10. Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel, Achim Menges (eds.), Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD, Vol 74, No. 3, May/June 2004