As part of the Digital Fabrication with Robots course, we were working on exploring different build materials and developing tools to fabricate using those materials. My project was fabricating complex concrete shapes using robots. For the first part, I worked on exploring different properties and shapes of concrete. Then, I worked on developing end tools that can be used with a robotic arm to fabricate twisted concrete columns. I used "Rhino" to design the end tool and Grasshopper to write the movement simulation of the robotic arm.
1. Lloret-Fritschi, E. (2016). Smart Dynamic Casting-A digital fabrication method for non-standard concrete structures (Doctoral dissertation, ETH Zurich).
Instrument
Initial shape exploration
Initial texture exploration