london UNITED KINGDOM

Human Automata & Computational Construction

Currently, our construction processes are plagued with out-dated techniques, analog methodologies and tolerance-prone assemblies. Recently emerging opportunities to utilize computational and digital information for automated-assembly processes has come at a critical time in the discipline. . . .

skylar TIBBITS
“Human Automata & Computational Construction”
Thursday, 01/12
06:30 – 08:00 pm / Chemistry Lecture Theatre 1
Bartlett School of Architecture
Gordon Street

London WC1H 0QB

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: Single-Strand Structures are a series of prototypes looking at constructing structures from single chain of tent poles. Tent poles provide a cheap and quick assembly kit for constructing complex geometry with universal joints. These prototypes follow in a line of research on programmable matter and deconstructing complex geometry into single strand sequences of fold instructions, much like our Ribosome’s decoding of RNA into fold sequences of complex proteins.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: This installation lines the concrete and glass hallway with hundreds of vaults, reminiscent of the great vaulted ceilings of historic cathedrals. The vaults provide a thickened surface articulation and a spectrum of oculi that penetrate the hallway and surrounding area with views and light. VoltaDom attempts to expand the notion of the architectural “surface panel,” by intensifying the depth of a doubly-curved vaulted surface, while maintaining relative ease in assembly and fabrication. This is made possible by transforming complex curved vaults to developable strips, one that likens the assembly to that of simply rolling a strip of material.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: Logic Matter: Digital Logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly
Given the increasing complexity of the physical structures surrounding our everyday environment; buildings, machines, computers and almost every other physical object that humans interact with, the processes of assembling these complex structures are inevitably caught in a battle of time, complexity and human/machine processing power. If we are to keep up with this exponential growth in construction complexity we need to develop automated assembly logic embedded within our material parts to aid in construction.
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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: The DataViz_Trophy was commissioned by SEED Media Group and GE as the winning trophy for the Visualizing Marathon 2010, held at Eyebeam NY to launch their new website – Visualizing.org.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: started as a problem solving exploration the surface milling tests began to lead to an eye opening opportunity. we were able to control the 3d surface output as well as detailed, non-uniform, or orthogonal cnc tool paths simply by programming patterns as 2.5 axis curve output. the surfaces were generated based on attractor/repulser codes that manipulate a field of points. tool paths were then generated from the curvature of the surface and undulate independently, responding to the attractor/repulsers.

produced in collaboration with point b design. design team: skylar TIBBITS, brandon KRUSYMAN and jon PROTO.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: the decibot is part of the larger *bot family of programmable matter 1d folding chains. the *bot family contains electromechanical folding @ nm, mm, cm, dm part lengths. the decibot is the largest of the family with overall dimensions of 144″x18″x18″ unfolded and 36″x36″x36″ folded into a cube.

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