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6
maj
2012
Parametryczny pawilon ze sklejki – wstÄ™pne szkice
Jawor Design Studio is developing a construction system for parametric plywood pavillion, which is going to be fabricated in July, during parametric design workshops held in Wrocław. Initial 3d sketches below :
Structure was designed with use of dynamic relaxation and node aggregation techniques, which was programmed in Processing. Precise parametric geometry was then built in Generative Components, then it was prepared for digital fabrication on CNC machine.
Special node system was developed to accomodate twisting geometry of non-planar connections :
All steps required to generate such structures will be explained in detail during workshops held in Faculty of Architecture (TU Wrocław) between 20 and 25th June :
14
mar
2012
Warsztaty z projektowania parametrycznego we Wrocławiu
Pomiędzy lutym a marcem 2012 Przemek poprowadził wspólnie z Michałem Piaseckim oraz Mateuszem Zwierzyckim warsztaty z projektowania parametrycznego. Uczestnicy zostali przeprowadzeni przez rozległy obszar wiedzy praktycznej i teoretycznej, poczynając od tworzenia prostych modeli 3D opartych na punktach kontrolnych, poprzez struktury żebrowane i panelizacje, aż po automatyczne generowanie dokumentacji budowlanej.
Wykorzystano techniki cyfrowego wspomagania wytwarzania takie jak cięcie kartonu laserem, wycinanie CNC w sklejce oraz druk 3D. Głównymi programami były Generative Components oraz Rhino Grasshopper, ale poruszono też programowanie w środowisku Processing.
więcej informacji znajduje się na http://www.projektowanieparametryczne.pl/?page_id=1275
photo Marcin Osiecki
12
kwi
2011
Parametric design workshop
Przemek Jaworski and Michał Piasecki will lead a parametric design workshop held at Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw Polytechnic University. Workshop will take place on 4 weekends, starting on 16/17 of April 2011. Material covered will include parametric BSplineSurfaces, panelization techniques of facades and roofs, automatic calculation of areas in freeform shapes and several key fabrication techniques. At the end participants will produce set of laser-cut physical models.
More info can be found here.
26
mar
2010
Smart Geometry 2010
Smart Geometry Workshops and Conference, held in Barcelona’s IaaC this year was a huge success. Over four days of workshops, hundreds of small and large scale (1:1) prototypes were designed and (!) manufactured using laser cutters, milling machines and various robots. ‘Working prototypes’ challenge was to build and test architectural models, thus proving their usability and functionality, which wasn’t easy within such limited time – but quality level of produced work was incredibly high.
All fabrication techniques were pushed to their limits, with new approaches re-invented on the fly, or manufacturing processes reengineered and applied in completely different way. Â One of most spectacular examples was KUKA robot employed to cut styrofoam bricks, as shown below :
(video of the process can be seen here)
Workshop consisted of ten clusters : Deep Surfaces, Nonlinear Systems in Biology and Design, Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces, High Tech Design – Low Tech Construction, Parametrics and Physical Interactions, Curved Folding, Explicit Bricks, Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly, Design to Destruction, Inflatable Fabric Envelopes.
My contribution in whole ‘creative mess’ was to co-tutor Parametrics and Physical Interactions cluster, together with Hugo Mulder (Arup), and Flora Salim (SIAL, RMIT). Â Its aim, was to provide participants with tools to extend virtual parametric modelling to physical world. We used sensors (light, movement, ultrasound, camera object tracking) as inputs, and various actuators, light emitters and multimedia projections as physical outputs. Short, but concise summary of the workshop is shown in video below :
Information on Smart Geometry Workshops and Conference can be found at  www.smartgeometry.org
More photographs:
1
lut
2009
Generative growth video
I posted a video on vimeo.com, illustrating some of generative techniques described below.
20
pa¼
2006
More constructions
other constructions modeled previously, with non-developmental algorithms
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Presented structure can be easily panelized with triangles
Previous version of the latter looked like this :
