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PRINT in PRINT (2021-07)

A Nested Robotic Fabrication-Strategy for 3D Printing Dissolvable Formwork of a Stackable Column

10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_20

 Farahbakhsh Mehdi, Borhani Alireza, Kalantar Negar, Rybkowski Zofia
Contribution - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, pp. 317-328

Abstract

In this paper, the fundamentals of a 3D nested construction method for 3D-printing stackable tower-like structures are explained, taking into consideration the transportation, storage, assembly, and even disassembly of building components. The proposed method is called “PRINT in PRINT.” This paper also documents the authors’ experience of and findings from designing and printing a column erected out of a series of 3D printed components in a short stack. Employing the design principles of 3D printing in a nested fashion, the authors showcase the main parameters involved in dividing the column’s global geometry into stackable components. By converting formal, technical, and material restrictions of a robotic-assisted 3D printing process into geometric constraints, the paper describes how the column components are divided, namely that one component shapes the adjacent one.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{fara_borh_kala_rybk.2022.PiP,
  author            = "Mehdi Farahbakhsh and Alireza Borhani and Negar Kalantar and Zofia K. Rybkowski",
  title             = "PRINT in PRINT: A Nested Robotic Fabrication-Strategy for 3D Printing Dissolvable Formwork of a Stackable Column",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_20",
  year              = "2022",
  volume            = "1465",
  pages             = "317--328",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures: Imperatives: The Future Is Now",
  editor            = "David Gerber and Evangelos Pantazis and Biayna Bogosian and Alicia Nahmad and Constantinos Miltiadis",
}
Formatted Citation

M. Farahbakhsh, A. Borhani, N. Kalantar and Z. K. Rybkowski, “PRINT in PRINT: A Nested Robotic Fabrication-Strategy for 3D Printing Dissolvable Formwork of a Stackable Column”, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures: Imperatives: The Future Is Now, 2022, vol. 1465, pp. 317–328. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_20.

Farahbakhsh, Mehdi, Alireza Borhani, Negar Kalantar, and Zofia K. Rybkowski. “PRINT in PRINT: A Nested Robotic Fabrication-Strategy for 3D Printing Dissolvable Formwork of a Stackable Column”. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures: Imperatives: The Future Is Now, edited by David Gerber, Evangelos Pantazis, Biayna Bogosian, Alicia Nahmad, and Constantinos Miltiadis, 1465:317–28, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_20.