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This workshop teaches participants to design fibrous structures, develop manual and robotic winding workflows, and generate final AI-assisted visualizations.
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The workshop will be a loop between design and fabrication revolving around emerging morphologies of fibrous trajectories. The Workshop will delve into creating a workflow from design to digital fabrication for architectural-scale installation of an aggregated fibrous structure using a six-axis KUKA robotic arm. For projects where accessibility to a robotic arm would not be possible, a low-tech system for a manual wound strategy will be implemented.
Participants will learn how to create computational workflows within Grasshopper 3D using ‘MutAnt’ for aggregation of polygonal planar geometries and ‘Weaver Ant’ to design fibrous systems for robotic winding through ‘KUKA Prc’.
Create a computational workflow linking digital design and fabrication in Grasshopper 3D.
Design installations for low-tech fabrication using CNC cutting and manual cable winding.
Generate planar aggregations using boundary rule sets through MutAnt.
Build and simulate a robotic winding workflow using Weaver Ant and KUKA Prc for architectural-scale fabrication.
Rendering through Nano Banana.
This session begins with the design of rope winding on a single-curved stay-in-place formwork. The filament strategy will be designed to be provided for manual winding onto a CNC-cut frame.
The workshop will focus on scripting a computational workflow within Grasshopper, from designing the frames to incorporating nuts and bolts with notches for fixing the frames together. ‘Weaver ant’ will be used to generate the filament pattern and to generate data for winding.
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After graduating as an Architect, he pursued the application of data-driven architectural strategies in India. Subsequently, UN[MOULD]™ was initiated by him as a practice of alternative systems for the built environment, which delves into developing indigenous
methods that convolute a thread between data, design, and material with human/ machinic production systems within a range of products, architectural strategies, and urban installations.
He investigates bridging the academic experiments and industrial applications by disseminating the strategies developed from digital and analogue experiments pertaining to the built environment. He has been actively involved as an assistant professor since 2021 and has conducted multiple experiments in the form of architectural prototypes and filed IPRs within the umbrella of Dr. B.N. College of
Architecture’s Digital Architecture Department.
He is the Author/ Developer of ‘ Weaver Ant ‘, which was initiated in 2019 as a plugin for Grasshopper and is an outcome of research in robotic weaving, used by academicians and industry professionals, which has led to the open-ended development of a plugin for varied mechanical processes. He has published plugins such as ‘Weaver Ant ‘ and ‘ MutAnt ’ on food4rhino.com.
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