memo 8 - computer aided manufacturing techniques
Surface development is one of the options of translating digital data into structural/construction information
Thanks for the great workshop on Thursday and Friday last week. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.
Now it is time to put the acquired techniques to use for the development of your projects; or rather aspects of your project.
To summarize, the workshop introduced you to advanced methods of translating digital data into structural/construction information. It thereby allowed you to investigate technical and material aspects of your project.
For Monday 23rd January you are asked to produce one A1 drawing (or equal) the shows:
1. What aspect of your building you are investigating. You must choose a specific, representative part of your building and not a generic part that could be from any building. Please take a few seconds to consider a section of your building that embodies specific architectural qualities of your project.
2. The process of translating the abstract digital geometry into structural/construction information.
3. The organisation of structural/construction information into machine-able sheets including connection points, joining of different components, and assembly sequence. Use annotation and assemblies arrows to make the information graphically clear.
4. Material implication, i.e. is it a steel structure, is it the formwork of a concrete structure, is it a steel skeleton with a curtain walling cladding, or is it a Monocoque or semi monocoque structure…..
Additionally, for Monday we want to see a physical model using one of the demonstrated techniques, preferably an emulated laser cutting process - as presented by Andrew Taylor.
Important for Monday 23rd January you are asked to submit a 9x6 reduction of the A1 drawing. We will keep these sheets as evidence of your progress and as an indicator of how diligently you follow the unit programme.
It is absolutely vital that you produce the work in time. A lack of development on your building design will not be expected as an excuse. Similarly if you have missed the workshop of parts of it you have the responsibility to catch-up. We can not accept any excuses (please check the universities extenuation policies on http://www.uel.ac.uk/qa/extenuation.htm)
RT