Brise-Soleil House: Developing Software Tools to Enable the Integration of Design and Fabrication in Timber
This chapter presents a system for seamlessly integrating design, fabrication, and assembly of a geometrically complex timber veil for a house in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It explains how, through the development of bespoke software tools, a designe
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Abstract This chapter presents a system for seamlessly integrating design, fabrication, and assembly of a geometrically complex timber veil for a house in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It explains how, through the development of bespoke software tools, a designer can iteratively work in real-time and have the ability to pass model data through a comprehensive automated system, generating the output of fabrication-ready data for a highly customized project. Keywords Wood design · Parametric design · File-To-Factory Complex timber structures · Wood joint systems
1 Introduction The use of parametric and generative tools is no doubt increasingly common in the architectural space, and the barriers to generating and controlling increasingly complex forms is lowering with the availability of new digital tools and developing skillsets of designers. Concurrently, access to powerful digital numeric control (NC) machinery able to mass customize large numbers of self-similar but unique parts is also increasing. However, the workflows necessary to seamlessly bridge between design and fabrication are not yet clearly developed for a variety of reasons, including J. Nelson (B) The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected] C. Knapp Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected] R. Spence · J. Hutchines Studio Workshop, Mermaid Beach, Australia e-mail: [email protected] J. Hutchines e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 F. Bianconi and M. Filippucci (eds.), Digital Wood Design, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 24, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03676-8_48
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the need to develop a solution for the uniqueness of required method and execution of any given project, the perceived lack of cost and quality control on geometrically complex projects, and difficulty of negotiating tolerance between human and machine work in respect to the former. In an effort to address these issues in a real-world application scenario, the casestudy project below demonstrates the testing of the hypothesis that at the current level of technology it is practical to develop custom computational tools that bridge between design and fabrication on complex projects and that the tools can also extend into the assembly and installation phases while controlling costs and quality. It also demonstrates that by incorporating elements of design, new issues are encountered, such as accommodating change and flexibility (Woodbury 2010; Davis 2013) which lead to innovative adaptations within the system. Of particular note, this project addresses the need for mediation between users and developers of a bespoke tool and their potentially dissimilar skill sets and needs without compromising the tool’s efficacy or functionality. Through the implementation of a simple, familiar interface for the designer to engage with custom tools in an intuitive and flexible manner—in this case a ‘sculpting’ solution is employed—making it possib
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