DAETSAM Intensive Workshop

29 Jul DAETSAM Intensive Workshop

This 4 day-long intensive and introductory workshop covered the very basics of RhinoScript and digital fabrication.We wnt through creating points, lines, curves and surfaces in order to prepare component-populated structures. We then automated the preparation of 2d-plans for digital fabrication and built a scaled  physical mock-up of our structures.

Our program:

• Phase1 – Code writing
  • Introduction to coding: macros, basic concepts. Placing buttons and customizing user interfaces
  • Arrays: 2d point grids
  • Grids with lines and curves. Hierarchy in computational geometry
  • Surfaces and components
  • Using attractors to modify and control geometry
• Phase 2 – Plan automation and digital fabrication
  • Geometry preparation (extensive version)
  • Digital fabrication session: create plans for laser cutter using rhinoscript (extensive version)
• Phase 3 – Fabrication and assembling
  • Laser cutting session at the fabLab (extensive version)
  • Model assembly and exhibition

Mock-up model, photo: Maria Jesús Sacristan

 Scaled mock-up model, photo: Miguel Ánge López, Hugo Anaximandro