Research's IaaC - Students Research - Open Thesis Fabrication
Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: New Prosthesis Exoskeletons
Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate: Joel Letkemann
Project description: The New Prosthesis project uses digital fabrication techniques to cut and bend wood into lightweight and materially efficient structures. These pieces are bent without form work, using the specific control of the laser cutter to define joints instead, thus avoiding wasteful form work.
Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)
Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: Bloon
Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate: Nicholas Waissbluth
Project description: Bloon, a collaboration with the Barcelona based space tourism company, Zero 2 Infinity, is a capsule that will travel to near space giving travellers the experience to view our planet in the most unique way. The Open Thesis project concentrates on the space capsule: the geometry, possible fabrication processes, and building a 1:1 prototype.
The first phase consists of understanding the geometry of the capsule (a torus) supported by research in composite structures such as Automatic Fiber Placement technologies (AFP), and finally building a lightweight 1:1 prototype of one section of the capsule to be used for long term research into the design and fabrication of the capsule.
Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)
Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: Wall System
Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate: Alemseged Bishu
Project description:This project is an investigation on Similar units are structured by strategically inserting edges. The materiality and performance of the assembly which is suggested by this combination was tested with a prototype.
Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)
Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: Sunscreen
Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate: Brian Peters
Project description: Sunscreen is a passive solar display system intended for a wide range of architectural applications. The system can be programmed to relay messages or animations depending on the location of the light source (either the sun or artificial lights). To realize Sunscreen, I collaborated with Kuka, using one of their six-axis robotic arms tofabricate numerous tests. The final large-scale prototype is a solarclock that responds directly to the position of the sun, 365 days of the year here in Barcelona.
Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)
Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: Respira
Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate: Ilaria La Manna
Project description: Respira, is a two dimensional panel that works like skin protection and responsive facade, that will change its shape according to the outside temperature and help the air ventilation or protection of the building.
Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)
Download PDF Presentation of IaaC (3.4MB)