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Prototyping a Pavilion

Watch this video to see a Chalmers University of Technology Tracks course focused on advancing technologies for circular and material-efficient construction. See students explore the use of bio-based and underutilized materials to demonstrate the potential for sustainable and innovative building methods.

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3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Manufacturing & Prototyping

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    00:00:00 oh my God I mean we started from like not knowing what we are doing and we have achieved this fantastic structure my name is UT gagoto I'm a researcher at the department of architecture and civil engineering and I am researching and teaching on wood engineering how to use wood in a modern sustainable build environment so the tracks courses or tracks is about like

    00:00:24 prototyping like design built projects in this particular project we worked on a free form timber frame and 3D printed wood and polymer uh mixture I was really interested in the advertisement for this tracks course I thought wow we can actually make a real thing which is you know a step up from prototyping or just having things in the digital domain I was in the additive

    00:00:49 manufacturing team so in the additive manufacturing team we were responsible for for making this cladding this kind of design and the surface design as well um so basically what you see is what we were responsible for uh my role started out as uh working with the structure uh you don't see it right now I think because it's behind this and it's the it's the skeleton of the the work so my

    00:01:17 role uh here was as an architect uh mainly we had some cross disciplinary uh groups uh work groups we started off the project by redesigning the design that we were given from our previous Studio architectural studio so we needed to simplify and still keep the core values that it had uh one of the biggest

    00:01:47 challenges is just coordination when you have so many different people that are united in this goal of course you have a common Vision but the way that you can achieve that vision is different so communicating between different groups different teams and people with different backgrounds can sometimes be challenging and of course the structure itself is quite challenging because at

    00:02:06 this scale if you have any kind of mistake it can have like a cascading effect of failures yeah so I don't know if you have seen the robot arm you should go go do that uh it's uh it's basically printing so um it's stacking layers upon each other so each uh new uh layer that we have to print has to be stabilized by the previous layers uh we have to print um more and more to the

    00:02:31 side if we we want to do a curved uh part that's a little bit what uh inspired us to do this organic shape I learned so much not only about using different modeling tools but a lot of the challenges involved with making a structure of this kind of size and dimensions communication we didn't give it enough time I think we didn't have a developed

    00:02:55 system for how to do it between each other it was better in the end because we learned of course but uh it would have been nice to really sit down and figure that out first thing it would have been more smooth it's one of the main things that I've also learned the biggest challenge look also the biggest takeaway from a project like this the best part is well we made it despite all

    00:03:19 the challenges uh we actually finished our structure in a pretty satisfying way um as you can see it's pretty impressive I'd have to say it's very fun to see it uh being finished that I think is the best part to actually to actually have have uh like built something it's quite uh cozy in here it invites uh uh to yeah sitting down here you feel kind of enveloped

    00:03:47 even though it looks a little bit scary I think I think the biggest takeaway is that it was just such a great experience working with people from all these different backgrounds this interdisciplinary approach is really something unique and special and I I think hardly any people will be able to say that they worked with a robot to make a structure so very

    00:04:06 cool we got really close and we were having a lot of fun and also the construction itself working together here very practically made a different um environment you feel more closer together you feel like you're really sharing doing something together I would recommend this track course to anyone who's interested in taking a track course don't feel intimidated by the

    00:04:29 kind of of technical background that it has if you have any interest in this kind of Technology at all it's better to try and experiment now while you have the chance than be scared off of it forever we came to know like who we are first of all and what we are doing and I could see the big change in everyone's like eyes and minds and I think it was a super successful process for all of us