THOUGHTS ON LASER CUTTING

I found laser cutting to be a very interesting process and as I was new to it, I did find it somewhat difficult. Converting my model to be laser cut ready was the most difficult part.
As far as my model goes, I would have liked it to have worked on it on a different scale to ensure I’m getting exactly what I want.
For materials i would of liked it to have been in acrylic which would of gave it a more stable and appealing look, rather than in grey card, and for my other part of the model it was difficult to find a material that would do what I wanted, but in the end had to result to polypropylene, which I thought wasn’t ideal and the best choice but it gave a slight representation of what I was after.

LASER CUTTING EXPLORATION

ASSIGNMENT 3 EXPERIMENTATION

PROPOSAL

12 SOURCES

• Architectural Geometry as Design Knowledge (Helmut Pottmann) – 14-04-11
• Geometry of Architectural Freeform Structures (Helmut Pottmann, Alexander Schiftner, Johannes Wallner) – 14-04-11
• Studies of Geometry Integrated in Architectural Projects
(Cornelie Leopold, Andreas Matievits) – 14-04-11
• Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann) – 14-04-11
• Frank Gehry (Tiffany & Co.)
• Design Of Parametric Modelling Systems (R. N. Ibrahim, S. J. Boardman) – 14-04-11
• Geometry, Architecture, Shapes and Patterns (Richard Tesch) – 14-04-11
• Parametric possibilities: Designing with Parametric Modelling (Heike Matcha) – 14-04-11
• Parametric Modelling as a Design Representation in Architecture :A Process Account
(Robert Woodbury, Shane Williamson, Philip Beesley) – 14-04-11
• Technical Notes from experiences and studies in using Parametric and BIM architectural software. (Virtual Build Technologies, 4-3-2007) – 14-04-11
• Architectural Parametric Design and Mass Customization (Sander Boer m.Sc. & prof. Kas Oosterhuis m.Sc.) – 14-04-11
• Generalized complex geometry
(Marco Gualtieri, St John’s College University of Oxford) – 14-04-11
• A system for from fostering , Parametric modelling of responsive forms in mixed reality
(Flora Dilys Salim, Hugo Mulder, Jane Burry) – 14-04-11
• http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6j3P9KzLWKMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA4&dq=Advances+in+Architectural+Geometry+2010&ots=3_b39X4DHm&sig=gBHFU5TJUrpyqQ_zcJhZ21qsAb0#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Geometry of Structural Form, Lorenz Lachauer, ETH Zürich, Toni Kotnik,
ETH Zürich– 4-05-11
• Free-Form Geometric Modeling by Integrating, Parametric and Implicit PDEs, Haixia Du and Hong Qin– 4-05-11

GRASS HOPPER EXPERIMENTATION

ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES

O - 14 Tower
Dubai
Jesse Reiser and Nanoko Umemoto



Torre Espacio
Madrid, Spain
Henry N. Cobb



Seattle Central Library
downtown Seattle, Washington
Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus