Lecture's IaaC - Additive Manufacturing in Architecture

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Tuesday the 16th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Additive Manufacturing in Architecture
Speaker: Enrico Dini and Rupert Soar

Enrico Dini’s biography
Enrico was born in Pisa in 1962 and graduated in Civil Engineering at Pisa University. His family have an amazing record of scientific advancement; Enrico is closely related to the mathematician who derived Dini’s theorem and his father worked for the man to invented the Vespa motocycle and who got the world’s first Helicoptor to fly.
Enrico has spent his entire career in the sector of mechanics, automation and robotics, manufacturing automatic machines for the automotive and footwear industry, but never forget his first love for civil engineering and particulary Gaudi’s architecture.

In 2003 Enrico approached the world of 3D Printing to manufacture small objects and immediately understood that the process invented by MIT in the late 80's, could be applied to achieve impossible full scale shapes buildings. Enrico Dini has opened the way for application of this process on a large scale. Since 2007 he started developing a binder, a process and a machine suitable to build full scale stone-like structures. In 2008 Enrico printed ‘Radiolaria’, a two meters tall free-form concept gazebo ,designed by the Architect Andrea Morgante, commonly considered as the very first printed building ever.

Today, Enrico is still developing the D-Shape technology cooperating with several architectural and civil engineering firms, universities, building construction and machinery companies.

Rupert Soar’s biography
For over 20 years Rupert Soar has been at the forefront of Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing. Rupert was a co-founder of the world leading Rapid Manufacturing Research Group (RMRG) in the UK and head of the Loughborough University Freeform Construction (LUFC) group.

Rupert is now director of Freeform Construction Ltd whose partners, researchers and staff are engaged in RM for construction, new construction materials, scripting and modeling systems, optimization and scanning as well as machines capable of ‘3D printing’ full-scale buildings and structures. Freeform Construction embodies the concept of ‘function finding’ (more function into less form).

Famously, Rupert and his collaborators have attracted international coverage through their exploits uncovering transient ventilation strategies and structural homeostasis within sub-Saharan termite mounds, which are completely new to science. Such strategies, reproducible through emerging Freeform Construction methods, stand to revolutionize digital design and construction and epitomize the goals of sustainable methods.”