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FA-A SFA-135 Fabricatie digitala.pdf

Department:

Study of Form and Ambience

Course Leader:

conf.dr.arh. Ionuț Anton

Teaching language:

Romanian

Learning outcomes:

General objective:
Understanding digital fabrication as a work process in order to materialize an architectural artifact.

Specific objectives:
Gaining knowledge of digital fabrication methods such as 3d printing, laser cutting or CNC milling, and how they can be integrated into the development of architectural artifacts.
Identifying the architectural elements that can be produced using digital fabrication.
Developing the ability to materialize elements of an architectural project using digital fabrication techniques.
Understanding the creative potential of digital fabrication and its involvement in design.

Content:

1. Introduction to digital fabrication
The craft-craftsman-artifact relationship in the digital age
2. Digital fabrication techniques
Digital fabrication tools
The digital craft
Variability and differentiation
3. Fabrication strategies

4. Preparing digital files for fabrication

5. Launch project brief
Discussions possible approaches
Team formation
6. Development of the first ideas and fabricated prototypes
Documentary discussions
7. Intermediate criticism
Evaluation of manufactured prototypes
8. Realization of digital manufacturing ideas and workflow
Discussions of detail

Teaching Method:

The course will be conducted in the form of a series of courses followed by seminars and a final part of project development.
The courses will be conducted in the form of lectures followed by conversation and debates.
The seminars will be conducted in the form of lectures, explanations and exercises followed by experiments and case studies focused on digital manufacturing technologies.
The project development will be conducted in the form of a continuous dialogue that lays the foundations for the development of a project and a parametric script, completed with two critiques: one partial and one final with the presentation of the project.
The projects will be developed in student groups that will self-organize among the participants.
The projects will be developed as a research on design methods using algorithms. The results will be documented and published as research through the project.
The projects will be developed as an applied research on algorithmic design methods, aiming at the transposition of the digital flow into physical objects through digital manufacturing technologies. The results of this materialization process will be documented and published in the form of a research project.
Students will explore central themes of contemporary digital architecture, having the opportunity to develop generative algorithms or digital formal search methods, optimized for a specific production process and for the physical properties of the materials used.
During the course, students will develop a series of guided exercises aimed at both mastering manufacturing techniques (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC) and freely exploring how parametric design can generate complex architectural artifacts.

Assessment:

Evaluation criteria:
-Active attendance at scheduled meetings (minimum 7 attendances in order to receive a grade for the course in the current session). The first course does not count - 20%
-Demonstration of understanding of digital fabrication workflows taught in class by solving the topics received - 20%
-Demonstration of the abilities to use digital fabrication technologies by materializing the architectural artifact - 20%
-Development of an architectural artifact that responds to a given project theme - 20%
-Ability to make an innovative contribution to the use of digital fabrication technologies in the project - 10%
-Project presentation - 10%

Bibliography:

1. Glynn, R., & Sheil, B. (Eds.). (2017). Fabricate 2011: Making Digital Architecture (Vol. 1). UCL Press.
2. Gramazio, F., Kohler, M., & Langenberg, S. (Eds.). (2017). Fabricate 2014: Negotiating Design & Making (Vol. 2). UCL Press.
3. Sheil, R., Menges, A., Glynn, R., & Skavara, M. (2017). Fabricate 2017 (pp. 1-304). UCL Press.
4. Willette, A., Brell-Cokcan, S., & Braumann, J. (2014). Robotic fabrication in architecture, art and design 2014. Springer Science & Business Media.
5. Brell-Cokcan, S., & Braumann, J. (Eds.). (2013). Rob| Arch 2012: Robotic fabrication in architecture, art and design. Springer Science & Business Media.
6. Sheil, B. (Ed.). (2012). Manufacturing the bespoke: making and prototyping architecture. John Wiley & Sons.
7. Rael, R., & San Fratello, V. (2018). Printing architecture: Innovative recipes for 3D printing. Chronicle Books.
8. Hauschild, M., & Karzel, R. (2012). Digital Processes: Planning, Designing, Production (1st edition). Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.11129/detail.9783034614351
9. Marble, S. M. S. (2012). Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design – Assembly – Industry. Birkhauser Architecture. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034612173
10. Retsin, G., Jimenez, M., Claypool, M., & Soler, V. (Ed.). (2019). Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (1st edition). DETAIL. https://doi.org/10.11129/9783955534257
11. Branko Kolarevic, Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, 1 ed. (Taylor & Francis, 2005).
12. Branko Kolarevic și Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, 1 ed.

Notes:

The course will use the existing digital fabrication infrastructure in the Fab-Lab, BAZE Modeling Workshop and the Mac Popescu Experimental Workshop of UAUIM.
Updated mode of use of equipment viewed through the PNRR in 2025-2026.

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