DIGITAL FABRICATION

> Computer-Aided Design and Fabrication course aimed to introduce undergraduate students of architecture to the fundamentals of computational design and digital fabrication methods In the process of making a small pavilion. in the course of this class, students learned the theory and in the next step, execute their newly gained knowledge to design and fabricate an installation project at a real scale.

*/ Role [ Instructor / assistant of dr.ramtinhaghnazar]

*/ Course Title [ Computer-aided design and fabrication /]

*/ Location [ University of Tehran / Spring 2022 /]

*/ Main Instructor [Dr. Ramtin Haghnazar | Ramtin@vt.edu /

*/ Contribution to the project [

Teaching Softwares (Partial)

3d Modeling + scripting with grasshopper (Partial)

Digital Fabrication Process (Partial)

Photos are taken by students

Diagrams and texts are generated by students

Process

01 >Theory knowledge

In the first half of the semester, students develop their individual projects in small groups while learning grasshopper as the software tool. They acquired information about digital fabrication methods and they also learned how to use digital fabrication tools such as CNC machines.

02 >Ideation

At this stage, students came up with ideas and tried to develop them by giving critiques on each other’s designs. subsequently, one prototype was selected to be further developed.

03 >Development

many prototypes were made in order to find and resolve design and fabrication challenges that might come up further down the Process.

04>Form and structure

- Form Finding

/Utilizing Computational methods in order to reach the desired form

- Beams and Connections

/designing the structure and other assembly-related components such as the spacers

- Fabrication Data

/optimizing and organizing Data for use in the fabrication stage

- Analyzing the Reports

/reviewing parameters such as the length of the beams and the total length of machine work needed