| id |
acadia24_v2_81 |
| authors |
Tucker, Cody; Nemes, Keaton |
| year |
2024 |
| title |
Object-Oriented Digital Fabrication for Architectural Products |
| source |
ACADIA 2024: Designing Change [Volume 2: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9891764-8-9]. Calgary. 11-16 November 2024. edited by Alicia Nahmad-Vazquez, Jason Johnson, Joshua Taron, Jinmo Rhee, Daniel Hapton. pp. 501-512 |
| summary |
This research presents an object-oriented computational framework for digitally fabricated products, aimed at streamlining customization and increasing adoption of Digital Fabrication (DFAB) within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. By leveraging Object Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, the framework enables more efficient, adap¬tive, and customizable product lines. In modern DFAB workflows, integrating software, machines, products, and project parameters can result in overly constrained and repetitive code bases, which restrict reusability, adaptability, and future applicability. To overcome this, the framework adopts an OOP-based approach, abstracting architectural products into digital objects for increased flexibility and reusability across product lines. Leveraging OOP principles, objects can be seamlessly combined to produce highly tailored products suit¬able for diverse design scenarios. Moreover, the framework addresses challenges related to mass customization and the accurate translation of 3D representations into fabrication instructions, ensuring flexibility and accuracy in DFAB workflows. The framework is applied to an existing architectural product line and expanded to facilitate two custom project-based use cases, thereby demonstrating its effectiveness to streamline customization, reduce errors, and expedite development. Through these three applications, this paper exhibits how computational design and OOP-based computational frameworks can act as an agent of change in architectural product manufacturing to improve customization and streamline the DFAB process, presenting significant advantages for the AEC industry. |
| series |
ACADIA |
| type |
paper |
| email |
|
| full text |
 file.pdf (1,925,750 bytes) |
| references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
| last changed |
2025/07/21 11:42 |
|
