Dibond~R helps architecture students bend the rules

摘要

Graduate students were "Bending the Rules" in a recent exhibit at the Pratt Institute's School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY, USA, with four full-scale architectural design pieces fabricated with Dibond? aluminum composite material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA. The "Bending the Rules" exhibit was the culmination of students' work in the fall 2013 "Scripting and Form" seminar in the Pratt Institute's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program. Students worked in teams of three to create four large-scale sculptural pavilions each measuring approximately 20-by-30 feet by 20-feet tall. The seminar was taught by Robert Cervellione, visiting professor and coordinator of digital instructors. It focused on the use of computer-based parametric design tools to model and simulate material behavior, specifically adaptive foldable structures. The design and conception of each project blended computational design tools as well as traditional techniques of paper folding. "By utilizing advanced computational design tools, it allowed for complex fold and cut patterns to be generated and simulated at large scales in order to predict real-world behaviors," said Cervellione. "The ability to streamline the whole building material fabrication process is a very hot topic by both architectural academic researchers and real-world engineering firms," said Cervellione. "We're moving to a 100 percent digital design process."