GRI.D DANNY
GRIFFIN
GUIDANCE
I practice architecture by
coding constructive processes
About
GRI.D DANNY
GRIFFIN
GUIDANCE
I practice architecture by
coding constructive processes
About
Assisted Folding
MIT, How to Make Machines that Make Almost Anything
Instructor: Neil Gershenfeld
What’s the difference between a design being ‘too complex’ compared to ‘easily achievable’?
When architects use digital tools, we can fill our model with more information than we can convey with paper drawings. The builder sees a design with little repetition or economy, and requests for simplification.In situations like the folding of metal, asking for too many angles can lead to the downfall of the design, even though it’s so simple to do with a computer. Assisted Folding experiments with the idea of sending certain information directly to the builder’s tool, meeting them in the middle to simplify the task by making every fold the same, regardless of angle.
Assisted Folding Prototype
Basic actions in the folding of sheet metal
Metal folding is an operation with numerous hidden steps. There is a limitation to how much an architect can draw to make the fabricator’s job easier, eventually reaching a bottleneck where the fabricator ultimately relies on a continuous process of manually adjusting the machine. In this project, I explore a commitment of digital instructions to the extreme : imagining that an architect might not only give instructions to a fabricator through drawings, but simultaneously supplement that by providing digital instructions to their equipment.
Operation 2: Engaging the clamp
Operation 3: Manual Folding
The manual process hidden between each step
Systems Integration Concept for programmable brake stops
Based on David Gingery’s “Designing and Building the Sheet Metal Brake”
Programmable Stop:
Attached to the sides of a manual leaf brake, the programmable stop
Manual Forming meeting soft limits imposed by programmable stops