Grasshopper Fabrication: Intelligent Tectonics v2.0
INTELLIGENT TECTONICS V2.0, organized by Design Morphine at Decode Fab Lab in Athens, focused on the application of computational design in form-finding design strategies and fabrication methodologies for membrane typologies, stretched across spatial rod-string structures. Participants experimented on the usage of physics simulations, panelization techniques, and optimization tools to design advanced computational forms, as well as on methods to achieve their material representations through digital fabrication methodologies. Participants revisited the compelling work of well-known architects on catenaries, minimal surfaces, and tensegrity structures, to generate a series of physical and digital study models which inform a proposal for a permanent ceiling installation at Decode Fab Lab in Athens. The final outcome was a single built ceiling mounted structure by all the participants, which was the result from the computational studies. The design was digitally simulated and then fabricated and assembled by all students collectively. A complete journey from design, through experimentation to fabrication and construction.
Design Process
Fabrication Process
Tutors
Alejandro Garcia Gadea of DesignMorphine
Radul Shishkov of DesignMorphine
Alberto Lago of DesignMorphine
Martin Petrov of DesignMorphine (Assistant)
Students
Marta Marciniak, Patrycja Puzowska, Constantinos Gregoriou, Adi Levy, Barbara Drozdek, Melis Keskin, Stefanos Kyprianou, Myrto Patsourakou , Karan Sharma, Rana Elgendy, Gehad Soliman, Ionut-Adrian Patrascu, Savannah Alhaj, Teodor Andonov, Yoel Gil Cobo, Sovona Ghatak, Matt Ault, Zakhia Dakkash, Paulina Stefanova, Viktoriya Tudzharova, Alexandros Paradissis, Mohammad Suleiman
Workshop team
