Muslims and Hedonists – Research.

Case Study – City of Hammamet :
Touristic map of Hammamet shows hotels as if they were surrounded by green fields. In fact Hammamet, all kinds of immigrant towns/suburbs are being built as immigrants from the southern part of the country come to find work.Separation of tourists and locals is a conscious politics of Tunisian government. However there are very big differences in the level of investments between the housing and hotels zones.

Tunisia – Case Study 1:

Citizens of Hammamet were moved out of their houses in center of the city to allow the development of hotels. However their new places of inhibition is located in arrears that soon may become very attractive for the tourists due to the picturesque view and proximity to the beach.

Tunisia – Case Study 2:

Due to the long and expensive construction process people very often live in unfinished houses. There are some very interesting processes connected with inhabiting of unfinished spaces. One of them is the change of use. Usage of space during elongated <construction period may influence its program in the final stage if it would be reached.

Parametric Puzzle.

Sphere 1

These are the pictures form the fabrication process of two spheres. The goal was to check the performance of different size of puzzle joints.  It seams that bigger joints behave much better and don’t get damaged during the process of folding.

Cut unrolled surfaces that would be later assembled in to sphere

Folded Spheres

Photos of acomplished prototype.

I am posting pictures from two of my parametric models that I am working on simultaneously one is sphere and another is random double curved surface. Goal is to divide surface in to stripes and apply puzzle pattern to their curves. In this definition I can adjust the size of puzzle joints and also set the number of puzzles for each curve.

Double curved surface 1

Double curved surface 2

Sphere 1

Parametric puzzels.

Project Concept Text Goal of this project is to develop Grasshopper definition that would divide given surface in stripes with puzzle joint. I would like to investigate how rapid prototyping of surfaces with double curvature is possible by simple subtractive 2D CNC process that is laser cutting.

Pictures from PhD work by Axel Kilian from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

One of Possible appliances of this definition is to change the puzzles into instruction for robot that could be assembled on the site according to downloaded instructions. Robot can cut or mark the puzzle that would be assembled into building envelope. This direction is my current interest in Development Studio.

Past Projects.

The Pipe

(with Andrea Kondziela)

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Our first approach was to find a natural structure which we can translate in our 3d-model. We chose the form of human arm because we were fascinated by the structure of muscles twisting themselves around. Video showing thegeneration of the form:

Video1

Cutting files.

Assembling the model.

CNC Home

(with Andrea Kondziela, Iwona Borkowska, Michał Grzymała, Gou Liang)

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Work developed on CNC Home Workshops in IaaC supervised by Jeroen van Ameijde, Michael Grau, Marta Male Aleman.

Intro
The idea of the machine is based on two aspects from the research excursion to Tunisia which is on the one hand the traditional technique of building a brick vaulted structure for dwelling units (ghorfa`s) and on the other hand the characteristic brick architecture in Tozeur and the region Jerid. Related to the studio project the machine should be applied for a digital generated brick house in Tunisia which combines the capacity of double curved structural brick surfaces with the environmental performance of perforated brick screens. The curvature helps orient surface towards or away from environmental impact or spatial requirements, so as increase or decrease/ filtering light, visual  penetration and modulation of airflow resulting from the gaps between bricks.

Ghorfas were being build for a group of fierce tribes who once inhabited the mountain regions of Tunisia where they had lived in mountain caves. They recreate this protective atmosphere and develop a unit system of simple, barrel-vaulted stone structures. For the construction they were using a string which is tied to the arm of the constructor for being able to create a vaulted structure setting the bricks always in the same distance.

Gramazio & Kohler – Venice Biennale Pavilion
By using the Robotic fabrication facility each brick is layed in the exact prescribed position, at the exact angle, and at the exact interval desired by the author of the program.

Sketch, and exploded diagram of the machine.

Test Wall.

Bricklaying.

Finished brick wall.