ARCH 527C.01- DIGITAL CRAFTING: ROBOTICS
PROFESSOR EZIO BLASETTI
PARTNER: NASTAZJA CANCELLARO
This project was exploring the hybridization and the possibility of a man-made material and a natural, biodegradable material coexisting together to create a type of building system.
We were looking into using a combination of carbon fiber, the man-made material, and mycelium, the natural material.
Below are some early form iterations where we were looking at a single component and then how they would attach together to create an overall aggregated form, exploring how the components would stack and modulate.
grasshopper algorithmic script generating a tetris matrix.
We then iterated using a grasshopper script that generated a variety of tetris matrixes where we could change different parameters, such as the different numbers of shapes and how many were aggregated together when applied to a surface, to get different combinations.
In using grasshopper to develop the varying tetris matrixes, we started to explore the individual form components both digitally and analog where we weaved carbon fiber on the IRB 140 robot to make one to one scale prototypes.
We looked at possible form components we wanted to use to make our tetris matrix and the way the mycelium could potentially grow to combine all of the forms together in one system.
IRB 140 robotic carbon fiber weaving
hand woven carbon fiber forms
While developing the physical forms, we grew the mycelium so that it would be ready to put together with the carbon fiber.
