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Day 1, Session Block A3

16:00 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Print of the Building Skin

Chair: Annie Shaw, Manchester School of Art, United Kingdom

Re-fabrication of knitted textiles and its architectural potential

  • Modeling in a scale-less and gravity-less digital environment
  • Re-fabrication through additive manufacturing
  • Three-dimensional seamlessness and stretch, phase-change form-finding and form-fixing

Annie Shaw, Manchester School of Art, United Kingdom

Desert tectonics

  • Design optimization for additive manufacturing
  • Polymeric printable materials
  • Fabrication process: from digital to tangible

Giulia Grassi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Parametric modeling, rapid prototyping and 3D printing of an interactive façade

  • Mechatronics
  • Sensible city and smart surfaces
  • DIY

Abudaya Amal, Ministere de la culture , Grenoble, France

3D-printed active urban surfaces

  • 3D-printed green walls of large scale housing projects
  • Complex textile reinforcement for 3D printed green walls
  • Urban regeneration through active urban surfaces

Andrea Redi, AIR, Architecture Initiates Regeneration, Graz, Austria

Water-driven breathing skin

  • Embedding graphene nano-platelets into concrete and clay
  • 3D printing
  • Thermal performance

Angelos Chronis, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Brief Presentations

Performance of building envelopes with 3D/4D printed bio-reactive materials

Francesca Contrada, ESTP Paris, FranceOlga Beatrice Carcassi, 120g, Pisa, Italy

17:30 End of Conference Day 1