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_id	acadia20_176p
id	acadia20_176p
authors	Lok, Leslie; Zivkovic, Sasa
year	2020
title	Ashen Cabin
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume II: Projects [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95253-6]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by M. Yablonina, A. Marcus, S. Doyle, M. del Campo, V. Ago, B. Slocum. 176-181
summary	Ashen Cabin, designed by HANNAH, is a small building 3D-printed from concrete and clothed in a robotically fabricated envelope made of irregular ash wood logs. From the ground up, digital design and fabrication technologies are intrinsic to the making of this architectural prototype, facilitating fundamentally new material methods, tectonic articulations, forms of construction, and architectural design languages. Ashen Cabin challenges preconceived notions about material standards in wood. The cabin utilizes wood infested by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) for its envelope, which, unfortunately, is widely considered as ‘waste’. At present, the invasive EAB threatens to eradicate most of the 8.7 billion ash trees in North America (USDA, 2019). Due to their challenging geometries, most infested ash trees cannot be processed by regular sawmills and are therefore regarded as unsuitable for construction. Infested and dying ash trees form an enormous and untapped material resource for sustainable wood construction. By implementing high precision 3D scanning and robotic fabrication, the project upcycles Emerald-Ash-Borer-infested ‘waste wood’ into an abundantly available, affordable, and morbidly sustainable building material for the Anthropocene. Using a KUKA KR200/2 with a custom 5hp band saw end effector at the Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory (RCL), the research team can saw irregular tree logs into naturally curved boards of various and varying thicknesses. The boards are arrayed into interlocking SIP façade panels, and by adjusting the thickness of the bandsaw cut, the robotically carved timber boards can be assembled as complex single curvature surfaces or double-curvature surfaces. The undulating wooden surfaces accentuate the building’s program and yet remain reminiscent of the natural log geometry which they are derived from. The curvature of the wood is strategically deployed to highlight moments of architectural importance such as windows, entrances, roofs, canopies, or provide additional programmatic opportunities such as integrated shelving, desk space, or storage.
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	acadia20_220
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.220
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_id	acadia20_148
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.148
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_id	acadia20_236
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.236
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_id	acadia20_202
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.202
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_id	acadia20_226
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.226
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_id	acadia20_232
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.232
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_id	acadia20_176
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.176
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_id	acadia20_124
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.124
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_id	acadia20_192
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.192
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_id	acadia20_164
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.164
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_id	acadia20_214
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.214
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_id	acadia20_154
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.154
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_id	acadia20_108
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.108
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_id	acadia20_182
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.182
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_id	acadia20_142
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.142
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_id	acadia20_136
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.136
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_id	acadia20_114
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.2.114
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_id	ijac202018304
id	ijac202018304
authors	Aagaard, Anders Kruse and Niels Martin Larsen
year	2020
title	Developing a fabrication workflow for irregular sawlogs
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 3, 270-283
summary	In this article, we suggest using contemporary manufacturing technologies to integrate material properties with architectural design tools, revealing new possibilities for the use of wood in architecture. Through an investigative approach, material capacities and fabrication methods are explored and combined towards establishing new workflows and architectural expressions, where material, fabrication and result are closely interlinked. The experimentation revolves around discarded, crooked oak logs, doomed to be used as firewood due to their irregularity. This project treats their diverging shapes differently by offering unique processing to each log informed by its particularities. We suggest here a way to use the natural forms and properties of sawlogs to generate new structures and spatial conditions. In this article, we discuss the scope of this approach and provide an example of a workflow for handling the discrete shapes of natural sawlogs in a system that involve the collection of material, scanning/digitisation, handling of a stockpile, computer analysis, design and robotic manufacturing. The creation of this specific method comes from a combination of investigation of wood as a material, review of existing research in the field, studies of the production lines in the current wood industry and experimentation through our in-house laboratory facilities. As such, the workflow features several solutions for handling the complex and different shapes and data of natural wood logs in a highly digitised machining and fabrication environment. This up-cycling of discarded wood supply establishes a non-standard workflow that utilises non-standard material stock and leads to a critical articulation of today’s linear material economy. The project becomes part of an ambition to reach sustainable development goals and technological innovation in global and resource-intensive architecture and building industry.
keywords	Natural wood, robotic fabrication, computation, fabrication, research by design
series	journal
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last changed	2020/11/02 13:34

_id	sigradi2020_953
id	sigradi2020_953
authors	Abdallah, Yomna K.; Estevez, Alberto T.
year	2020
title	Methodology of Implementing Transformative Bioactive Hybrids in Built Environment to Achieve Sustainability
source	SIGraDi 2020 [Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Online Conference 18 - 20 November 2020, pp. 953-961
summary	Discrete responsive systems lack functional autonomous transformation, in response to environmental conditions and users' demands; due to shortage in direct integration of biological intelligence. Bioactive hybrids are sufficient solutions as they perform independente self-replication, differentiation of cellular structure, active metabolism, spatial propagation, adaptation, transformation, and morphogenesis. In this paper, a methodology is proposed for the design, fabrication and implementation of these hybrids in the built environment; highlighting their sustainability potentials, by merging synthetic biology, bioengineering and bioprinting, to achieve multiscale active responsiveness. The current work is part of research in biosynthesizing fibroblasts as transformative material in architectural sustainability.
keywords	Transformative hybrids, Biodigital, Bioprinting, Robotic materials, Bioengineered systems
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2021/07/16 11:53

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