Research's IaaC - Students Research - Development Studios

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student Team: Mia Layco, Georgia Kotsari, Tomasz Starczewski

Project Name: Mimicry

Emergent systems found in nature such as the huddling of penguins or the building of termite mounds demonstrates how self organized systems prove to be most efficient.  Swarm behaviour has been studied in depth as well as simulated however never has it been applied to an over all process.  The Mimicry Group aims to harvest these qualities to create a fabrication process far more efficient than the current practice of CAD, CAE, CAM.  By doing away with these regimented steps and creating a hybrid system, fabrication process could potentially design, optimize and fabricate simultaneously.