Cloud slice patterns - using large-scale 3D printing and generative design to fabricate daylight-filtering façade panels
Student: Célia Bugniot
Academic Tutor : Sébastien Perrault – ECHOES.PARIS
Professional Tutor : - XTREEE
Date : 2017-2018
The benefits of additive manufacturing in architecture and construction are often considered in terms of material and time economy. But digital fabrication offers potential for a more comprehensive value creation approach, creating benefits not only for the builder or the designer but all the way to the end-users of the building. The opportunity to fabricate non-standard building elements allows to inform the design process with constraints and objectives deriving from all stages of the lifecycle of the project. However, such a comprehensive approach needs to be streamlined into a viable workflow.
This research paper aims at illustrating this proposition in the context of an openwork façade consisting of non-standard 3D-printed concrete panels incorporating objectives based on end users visual comfort, structural design and fabrication process. A generative design algorithm is built, which incorporates all constraints into a fluid process.
