Digital Filing
When the profile of a gothic column gradually turns into the foundation of its vault, it produces a coherent geometric transformation of its structural skeleton. Base on this observation, this research proposes a re-interpretation of ceramic construction by using 3d printing technique.
The project concentrates on exploring the role of additive manufacturing and the possibility of clay as individual component in catenary system. Base on the brick construction principle, the installation provides a high level ornamental attribute both on geometry variation and printing resolution, through treating the constraint of fabrication as a feedback of digital design.
Harvard University GSD
Material Practice as Research
2016 Fall
Professor: Leire Asensio Villoria
Group project: Eliza Pertikiozoglou, Johae Song, Math Cadan Whittaker, Yuan Mu
Innitial DesignThe 1st brick we print ... was an attempt to test the tool path, printing time, and the big cantilever. The tool path produced a random retrack pattern with infill material. The printing time was not very long, but the double-cantilever started to collapse a little as the print went up.
Innitial DesignThe 2nd brick we print ... was an attempt to test infill layer, printing time and the density. The infill layer made the piece very solid and stay strong, but the printing time took very long and the grid-geometry lost the sharp edge quaility because of the contour layers.
Innitial DesignThe 3rd brick we print ... was an attempt to test the translation from dynamic curved form to tool path printing time. The tool path went smooth and the circular geometry reduce travel time from one layer to the next. The printing time was much faster, so we decide to make the profile of our geometry into a circular shape.
Final Design
Alongside structural studies, we explored non-standard, non-structural geometries inspired by Gothic columns to push the limits of 3D printing. Using tangent circles around an octagonal base, we created profiles that evolve from two to four, and four to eight circles—embedding structural logic into texture and form through controlled geometric transformation.
