Student Work: Arch 591 - F10 | Final Boards and Models

Ted Teng

Samantha Senn

Kahyun Lee

Ryan Donaghy

Douglas Sharpe

Yoonho Lee

Young Joo Kim

Kahyun Lee

Digital Fabrication Work

Had the opportunity last week to sit on a review of Maciej Kaczynski's Digital Fabrication class here at University of Michigan. The class was taught in tandem with David Pigram's Rhinoscript class. The student groups were made up of student's enrolled in both classes - so each project was scripted and fabricated out of steel or aluminum. I thought the work was outstanding and demonstrated a high degree sophistication with the tools. Below are a few iPhone shots.

Rivet Reef: Andrew Aulerich, Rennie Jones, Brenna Williams, Conor Wood


Rust Belt: Bob Bradfield, Bruce Findling, Mark Meier, Clay Montgomery


Dragonsloth: Bryan Alcorn, Lauren Bebry, Ben Hagenhofer-Daniell, Mikhail Kim, Jesse Wetzel

Conference Presentation: Assemblies and Aggregations

Been away from the blog for awhile, as I'm not teaching a computer course this term and working on a couple of competitions - however, I recently attended the ACSA conference in New Orleans, Re-Building, to present a paper on student work in fabrication - from the course Arch 571: Digital Fabrication, conducted in 2008. The projects focused on parametrics and casting in the production of full scale cast units. A copy of the paper can be downloaded through this link. Above are few images of the completed projects. I also recently received a development grant from the University of Michigan to conduct further research in this area. I'll be creating a full scale casting project over the next few months - and will post the developments and results.

Student Work: Arch 591 - Fall 09 - Boards

Student Work: Arch 591 - Fall 09

Below are a few of the 3D prints and laser cut models from the final project in the Fall 2009 Generative Design Computing Course. The project was about 3 weeks in duration - the students were asked to design a small pavilion using the parametric modeling techniques explored throughout the term.


Andrey Budzinskiy

Fernando Velho

Xuanru Chen

Victoria Chu

Yu-Ying Tsai

Wenda Sun

Aggegations and Assemblies Exhibit

I've definitely been lax in my blogging - but I wanted to post this at some point. This is a slide show of images from an exhibit of student work from my Fall 08 Digital Fabrication Class and Karl Daubman's Parametric Modeling Class. All of the larger pieces are from the digifab class. The work was really outstanding and warranted the hard work of putting the exhibit together. There is an article on the work in the new Dimensions Journal #22 and one of the groups received an honorable mention in the 2009 acsa concrete competition.

2D Patterning - Student Work

Click on the image above to load a pdf (11mb) of select student work from the 2D textual and patterning excercises. Sorry - names are not on all of them.

Here is Michael and John's 2 point attractor definition.

Here is Kris's random pattern scaling definition.