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acadia23_v2_362 |
| authors |
Konis, Kyle |
| year |
2023 |
| title |
Rover Printing: A Novel Approach to Rapid Prototyping of Large-Scale Climate Altering Pneumatic Structures |
| source |
ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 2: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9891764-0-3]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 362-370. |
| summary |
he aim of this project is to develop and experimentally test the applicability of an auton- omous robotic fabrication process (Rover Printing) enabling rapid prototyping of climate altering pneumatic structures addressing critical issues of shade equity, urban cooling, and geoengineering. The work draws on the expressive, climatic, sensory, and tech- nical dimensions of pneumatic architecture to expand the possibilities of climate change mitigation beyond the dominant narrative of crisis and utilitarian response by enabling prototypes that are celebratory, creative, and playful, in addition to performative, low cost, and rapidly deployable. A digital/physical prototyping workflow is presented, including physics simulation, performative analysis, autonomous physical fabrication using a novel Rover Printer (Figure 1), and hands-on making. The workflow enables prototyping of novel climate-altering structures, tunable to local conditions, which utilize air as their primary structural material. Prototypes manifest the impulse to “solve” the climate crisis while simultaneously serving to explore the technical and social dimensions of climate change mitigation from a more creative and human-engaged perspective. |
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ACADIA |
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paper |
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