Meeting w/ Jeff!

So today there was a meeting w/ Jeff, from the shop @ sci-Arc + partner of Machineous, to go over the next phase of file prep. (Supposed to be w/ Andreas yesterday, but he couldn’t make it).

Now that 4 of us, Oliver Liao, Jeongsun Oh, ChiaHwa Lu, and Mira Lee, are done with exporting all the bricks into Rhino, time to move on to the next job.

In order to get all the bricks to fit into one another, intersecting surfaces need to get trimmed out, and again be saved as an individual brick file for the cutting job with the ROBOT.

 

The following are the steps that Jeff gave us:

1. Import template into Rhino model.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Clean out all the intersecting surfaces on each brick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Take an individual brick and place it on the template.

4. 3D orient the brick; make fat side up.

* Each brick is composed of two surfaces: Fat side + Thin side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Rotate fat using 3d rotation ( 0 about x axis at 180 deg.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Separate a fat and thin layer.

7. Every brick has a folder with fat. Iges and thin.iges in it.

8. Repeat steps 2-7 until the last brick.

 

Images: Oliver Liao

Photo: Greg Lynn Form

 

 

SneakPeek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

|Plan|

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

|Transverse section|

 

 

 

 

 

|Longitudinal section|

 

Drawings: Greg Lynn Form

 

 

 

just another day at the PC lab on a HOT HOT day in la la land

So today, we all met up in the PC Lab at sci-Arc to check everyone’s exported rhino files to make sure all the bricks were intersecting; because we don’t want the bricks to crumble down for sure!!!

Next meeting: 11am on Tues. w/Andreas of Machineous… 

Phase 01: File prep

This is what the file prep team has been doing for the past three days…

1. We began with Maya 3D polygon surfaces + Rhino NURBS brick file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. The NURBS brick was imported into Maya, then repositioned accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Each individual brick was exported and repositioned back to Rhino as an .iges file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Lastly, all the bricks were checked to ensure they intersected each other.

5. Now we will repeat steps 2-4 until the brick of dawn!

 

Images: Jeongsun Oh

Follow the blobby brick road…

Last Thursday, April 17th 2008, Adam Fure from Greg Lynn Form dropped by sci-Arc to discuss the first phase of file prep for fabrication. The Blobwall Pavilion is made up of four hundred bricks in which the design for a single brick was inspired by a plastic toy that fascinated Greg Lynn. A team of students from sci-Arc have volunteered to work on the exhibit from beginning to end. Their tasks from now until the opening of the installation will be outlined in the following:

1. Preparing files for each brick so it can transferred and readable when opened with the CNC software.

This task includes:

a. Plugging in the final brick geometry into an existing Maya animation file

b. Exporting a catalogue of iges files into Rhino

c. Orienting the geometry for CNC robot software

d. Exporting and cataloguing individual cut files

2. Programming the Tool Path which will instruct a robotic arm to custom cut each brick.

a. Importing .iges files into robot software

b. Generating CNC code for cutting of bricks with a 6-axis robot

3. Robotic cutting of bricks

a. Assisting in cutting bricks with robotic arm

4. Assembly:

a. Delivering cut bricks from Machineous to sci-Arc

b. Organizing storage of bricks for orderly access

c. Welding plastic bricks (approx. 15 bricks a day)

d. Painting gallery walls

e. Hanging Bubble Cabinets

f. Breaking down brick aggregate into panels

g. Wrapping and packaging Blobwall components for shipping

This site will document each stage of the process from beginning to end and bring you photographic and written updates for the Blobwall Pavillion.  Let the blobbing begin.

Before the Blobwall Pavillion…

There was Blobwall: a modular wall system, which is made from a lightweight honeycomb material developed by Panelite. Blobwall is “a freestanding, indoor/outdoor wall system made of a low-density, recyclable, and impact-resistant polymer.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Greg Lynn Form 

 

 

Hello world! Let’s talk BLOB!!! :)

What is this BLOB???

According to Wiki! + YouTube! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In all seriousness… 

Our friend Wikipedia defined “blob architecture” as…

“Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a current movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form.”

Wanna know more about this “blob”? You can read about it! 

 

Image: http://kingtet.com/images/blob.jpg