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Due to its small scale and low cost, the TinyZ could be distributed as a kit to each participant in the studio. The TinyZ Kit was largely composed of standard parts and repetitive assemblies, making the machine itself extremely modular and easily reconfi gurable to adapt to different material processes and projects throughout the semester.
Design and fabrication methods build upon previous research on lightweight fiber structures conducted at the University of Stuttgart and expand it towards inhabitable, multi-story building systems. Interdisciplinary design collaboration based on reciprocal computational feedback allows for the concurrent consideration of architectural, structural, fabrication and material constraints. The robotic coreless filament winding process only uses minimal, modular formwork and allows for the efficient production of morphologically differentiated building components.
The research results were demonstrated through Maison Fibre, developed for the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Situated at the Venice Arsenale, the installation is composed of 30 plate like elements and depicts a modular, further extensible scheme. While this first implementation of a hybrid multi-story building system relies on established glass and carbon fiber composites, the methods can be extended towards a wider range of materials ranging from ultra-high-performance mineral fiber systems to renewable natural fibers.
Desktop scaled fabrication tools designed to reach a distributed audience abound in industry, academia, and amongst DIY-ers. Drawing from these precedents, a desktop milling machine called the TinyZ was developed to support digital fabrication in an architectural studio held at MIT in the Spring of 2021. The machine was designed to be an easily reconfigurable rapid prototyping tool intended to adapt to evolving design processes.
The TinyZ Kit introduced students to the basics of machine building, electronics, and computer numerically controlled (CNC) programming. The outcome of the studio showed the potential for different home labs to develop specializations and to collaborate by out-sourcing, offering a way for students to work together remotely. Finally, the work of the studio demonstrated that new material processes developed remotely could return to fab labs and extend the capacities of shared maker spaces.
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