AR3016 Digital Fabrication and Architecture Syllabus:

AR3016 Digital Fabrication and Architecture Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To give exposure to various digital production tools to build artefacts as part of creative design process.
 To give knowledge about utilising 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 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL FABRICATION

Introduction to Digital Fabrication; Advantages of Digital Fabrication; Evolution of digital fabrication in architecture, overview of the impact the technology, new realm of possibilities for architectural expression, Etc.,

UNIT II ADDITIVE FABRICATION

3d Printing, Process of 3d printing, it’s Possible Materials Etc., Case studies of Application of 3d printing in practice at different scales;

UNIT III SUBTRACTIVE FABRICATION

Laser Cut, CNC Milling, Water Jet Cutting, Etc., it’s Possible Materials Etc., Case studies of Application of Subtractive Fabrication in practice at different scales;

UNIT IV TRANSFORMATIVE FABRICATION

Robotic Fabrication, Mechanically Transformative Process, Etc., it’s Possible Materials Etc., Case studies of Application of Transformative Fabrication in practice at different scales;

UNIT V FILE TO FACTORY PROCESS

Preparation of File to Factory Process, Optimization of meshes/files, STL Formats, Etc.,

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 attribute.

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. Branko Kolarevic, 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. Farshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan R. Ludwig and Ahmadreza Schricker, The Function of Form
9. Rivka Oxman 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