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Generatively Designed Reception Desk at Autodesk MaRS Office in Toront |
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Topic: Generatively Designed Reception Desk at Autodesk MaRS Office in Toront Posted: 02.Oct.2017 at 04:00 |
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From previous blog posts, recall this gang of four:
Well Arthur just filed this report: This summer, the Applied Research Lab collaborated with the Living Studio to design and fabricate a reception desk for the new Autodesk MaRs Office in Toronto, Canada. Though the MaRS name started as Medical and Related Sciences, the facility now focuses on information and communications technology, engineering, and social innovation. The MaRS location brings together educators, researchers, social scientists, entrepreneurs, and business experts under one roof. Such an auspicious location requires an auspicious first impression, and the Autodesk reception desk helps give visitors just that. This reception desk uses a novel method for both fabrication and design by reinforcing thin sheet metal with robotically controlled welded patterns that were generated through a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. The result is a reception desk made of only 0.1-inch thick sheet metal, reinforced to hold the weight of a 200-pound table top. The process started with the Living's setup of a parametric model of a sheet metal surface that used an evolving genetic algorithm that could easily scale to the different sizes of the panels and resolutions of reinforcement for the weight of its table top. This parameterization created a complex design space and a wide variety of possible design solutions. These design solutions were then tested for structural metrics and optimized according to structural goals. Once an optimal design was achieved, it was fabricated using a custom robotic welding workflow. Starting with a thin sheet of steel, the robot used a custom end effector and a modified short-circuit metal inert gas (MIG) welding process to transfer metal along paths specified by the digital model. These paths selectively reinforced the sheet so as to meet the structural goals of the design. By combining a generative design workow with a custom robotic fabrication process, we have showcased a novel fabrication method that can be applied to steel structural design across a wide variety of scales and applications for architecture and engineering. The team included Arthur Harsuvankit, Nick Cote, Brittany Presten, Jack Reinke, and Brice Dudley of the Applied Research Lab, along with Danil Nagy, Ray Wang, and David Benjamin of the Living Studio. Thanks. Arthur. Well done, team. A welcome reception is alive in the lab. Go to the original post... |
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