Extension!

Hi All,

As discussed in our last class, we'll push out the submission of the models and documentation by a week to give you a little more time in the workshop.

So the revised dates for the second half of the semester are:

Week	Class	Date	Tutorial Activities.
8	8	12 September	Submit Project Matrix for assessment.
9	Study Week		Self-Directed Work
	Mid Semester Break		Self-Directed Work
10	Gap	03 October	Self-Directed Work
11	9	10 October	Fabrication 1 complete.
12	10	17 October	Fabrication 2 complete.
13	11	24 October	Fabrication 3 complete.
	12	07 November	Submit Documentation; collate and (re)present documentation collected throughout the semester.

The extra workshop time is shown in blue.

Regards

Todays Tutorial

Hi All,

At 2pm today we have the turning/lathe tutorial with Alejandro Bona.

Below is a timber lathe annotated with the correct names for each part:

And the same for a metal lathe:

Both essentially work the same way; you grasp a piece of material with the headstock/chuck and it spins the material on an axis, then you use tools to modify the radius of the material. It's amazing what you can do with such a simple operation.  

Following the turning/lathe demo, at 3:30pm, we have the Roland CNC demonstration with Daniel Castillio supervising.

Should be a fun day!

Regards

Russell

Rhino and Grasshopper Curated Tutorial List

Hi All,

This is the PDF I mentioned that had the great list of tutorials for getting started using Rhino and Grasshopper for Parametric Architecture.

AIR_TutorialVideoList.pdf

Regards

Russell

CNC Demo Today

Hi All,

We have our CNC demo today kicking off at 2pm. See you then.

For inspiration, all the below were CNC Milled:

And finally, two non-architecture video clips to finish off:

This Ferrari is made in one piece ...

 

This Zhonda is made in multiple pieces (using a large flat bed CNC Mill similar to the two we have in the back of the workshop); note especially that he screws the parts together with long wood screws as well as gluing them (at minute 1:45) ... interesting ...




Regards

Russell

Demo schedule for the next 3 weeks.

Hi All,

Just to keep you in the loop, the schedule of demonstrations we will be having over the next three weeks is below:

Tues 22^nd August

2pm – 3pm

Alessandra Fabbri & Russell Lowe

3D Printing Tutorial – Flash Forge Finders and Guider II’s

Tues 29^th August

2pm – 3pm

Roland CNC Mill Tutorial

Alessandra Fabbri OR Gabriel Undery & Russell Lowe

Tues 5^th September

2pm – 3pm

Turning tutorial

Gabriel Undery & Russell Lowe

You'll see they are scheduled from 2pm - 3pm each class day, which leaves another 2 hours to try things out or work on your assignments.

See you at 2pm today!

Regards

Russell

Constructivist Machines vs Stencil Graffiti

Hi All,

I mentioned some very cool old Russian Constructivist drawings of machines to Andrew last time we met ... I couldn't find them on the internet, but did find them in one of my old lectures from 2005 (originally scanned from an old journal article, which I think was (AD").

In the lecture I was comparing them to stencil graffiti which as just making the headlines in 2005. I thought I'd leave them together to see what you think over a decade later ...

Download PDF here.

My favorite is the drill on slide 3 (seen below), although the machines on slide 10 and 13 are also top shelf.

Regards

Russell

Example work from last year

Hi All,

As promised, take a look at these links for work of students from last year:

Amy Zhu

Hayden Co'burn

James Hargrave; Project Matrix and Documentation

I'm interested to hear your comments in next weeks class.

Regards

Russell