Using Computer Aided Fabricating Technologies In Architecture

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

there is not

Course Contents

Gathering basic information about the introduction of tools and methods and production by computer - based approaches. The production and gathering of applications developed by CNC, laser-cut and 3D printer during the year through the discussion and development of the process of production of these methods,systematic and the way of thinking.

Weekly Schedule

1) Introduction to the computer aided manufacturing (CAM) approaches, tools and methods
2) Computer aided design (CAD) and Computer aided manufacturing (CAM) development process and theorem
3) CAM process
4) Additive manufacturing processes: rapid prototyping
5) Generative approaches for rapid prototyping
6) Subtractive manufacturing processes: Sectioning with Laser cutter
7) Subtractive manufacturing processes: Tessellation with Laser cutter
8) review of works
9) Contouring technique
10) Assembly methods for laser cutter
11) Assembly methods for composite materials
12) Robotic fabrication
13) Review of the ideas and models for a defined design product
14) Manufacturing the components of the design product
15) Assembling the components of the design product
16) final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Beorkrem, C. (2013). Material strategies in digital fabrication. Routledge.
2- Burry, J., & Burry, M. (2010). The new mathematics of architecture. Thames and Hudson.
3- Caneparo, L. (2014). Digital fabrication in architecture, engineering and construction (pp. 1-218). A. Cerrato (Ed.). London: Springer.
4- Dunn, N. (2012). Digital fabrication in architecture. Laurence King.
5- Dunn, N. (2014). Architectural model making. Laurence King.
6- Gramazio, F., & Kohler, M. (2014). Made by robots: challenging architecture at a larger scale. John Wiley & Sons.
7- Hensel, M., Menges, A., & Weinstock, M. (2006). Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design (Architectural Design March April 2006 Vol. 76 No. 2).
8- Hensel, M., & Menges, A. (2008). Versatility and Vicissitude: An Introduction to Performance in Morpho?Ecological Design. Architectural Design, 78(2), 6-11.
9- Iwamoto, L. (2013). Digital fabrications: architectural and material techniques. Princeton Architectural Press.
10- Jackson, P., & Suchowolski, M. (2011). Folding techniques for designers: from sheet to form. Laurence King Pub.
11- Jackson, P. (2013). Cut and fold techniques for promotional materials. Laurence King Publ.
12- Jackson, P. (2014). Cut and fold techniques for Pop-Up designs. Laurence King Publ.
13- Kolarevic, B. (Ed.). (2004). Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing. Taylor & Francis.
14- Legendre, G. (2011). Mathematics of space (Vol. 212). John Wiley & Sons.
15- Leyton, M. (2006). Shape as memory: A geometric theory of architecture. Walter de Gruyter.
16- Moloney, J. (2011). Designing kinetics for architectural facades: state change. Taylor & Francis.
17- Moussavi, F., & Kubo, M. (Eds.). (2006). The function of ornament. Barcelona: Actar.
18- Oxman, R., & Oxman, R. (2010). The new structuralism. AD Architectural design, 206.
19- Oxman, R., & Oxman, R. (2014). Theories of the Digital in Architecture. Routledge.
20- Peters, T., & Peters, B. (2013). Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design. John Wiley & Sons.
21- Picon, A. (2011). Architecture and mathematics: Between hubris and restraint.Architectural Design, 81(4), 28-35.
22- Picon, A. (2014). Ornament: The politics of architecture and subjectivity. John Wiley & Sons.
23- Picon, A. (2015). Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence-AD Primer. John Wiley & Sons.
24- Pottmann, H., Asperl, A, Hofer, M. & Kililan, A. (2007). Architectural geometry. Vol. 10. Bentley Institute Press.
25- Rao, A., Srinivasa, A. R., & Reddy, J. N. (2015). Design of shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators. Springer.
26- Reas, C., & McWilliams, C. (2010). Form+ Code: in design, art, and architecture. Princeton Architecturel Press.
27- Sass, L., & Oxman, R. (2006). Materializing design: the implications of rapid prototyping in digital design. Design Studies, 27(3), 325-355.
28- Schumacher, P. (2011). The Autopoiesis of Architecture: a new framework for Architecture (Vol. 1). John Wiley & Sons.
29- Stavric, M., Sidanin, P., & Tepavcevic, B. (2013). Architectural scale models in the digital age: design, representation and manufacturing. Springer.
30- Tedeschi, A. (2014). AAD Algorithms-aided design: Parametric strategies using Grasshopper. Edizioni Le Penseur.
31- Woodbury, R. (2010). Elements of parametric design.
32- Picon, A. (2010). Digital culture in architecture. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser.
33- Kolarevic, B., & Klinger, K. (2013). Manufacturing material effects: rethinking design and making in architecture. Routledge.
34- Gershenfeld, N. (2012). How to make almost anything: The digital fabrication revolution. Foreign Aff., 91, 43.
35- Blikstein, P. (2013). Digital fabrication and ‘making’in education: The democratization of invention. FabLabs: Of machines, makers and inventors, 1-21.
36- Willis, K. D., Xu, C., Wu, K. J., Levin, G., & Gross, M. D. (2011, January). Interactive fabrication: new interfaces for digital fabrication. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (pp. 69-72). ACM.
37- Moreira, A. P., Veiga, G., & Sousa, J. P. (2014). RobTech-Task 1.2-Survey in Robotic Technologies.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Question-Answer
2) Drill and Practice
3) Group Study
4) Lab / Workshop
5) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade	50%
Number Percentage Semester Studies Midterm Examination 1 50% Practices 1 50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required