Final Assignment challenged students to design and digitally fabricate an architectural prototype which would be assembled by a third party. Students provided a set of instructions to be used by the assembler. Enjoy the results!
Friday, May 7, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Digitally Fabricated Coffee Table
Digitally Fabricated Coffee Table
By Brian Akert and Jared Carda
We decided to design and build a coffee table for our digital fabrication class that would be manufactured by our college's CNC machine. We began our design process by figuring out how we can cut our simple sections in order to create an overall form that cantilevers to a small point opposite of a heavy mass that makes up the bulk of the table.
Using Rhino3D, we came up with a form that would be easily contoured and extruded into the "ribs" of the structure. These would be held together by a ring that surrounds a custom piece of plate glass supplied by a third party. The counterweight for the cantilevered form would consist of a concrete shelf that would be able to both balance the piece and keep rigidity throughout the structure.
We set up our CNC cuts through RhinoCAM so that the pieces would fit tightly within each other. Each of these connections were measured with exact tolerances as to make sure the piece would be able to be held together by friction alone. However, just to be safe, we added a very small amount of glue to each joint.
Our concrete form was cut out by the CNC machine and then was filled with concrete and fiberglass and left to dry overnight.
The assembly process is shown in the pictures below:
Digital Design
Writing the G-Code in RhinoCAM
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