Marco Lurati

WikiBikePark

Teaching digital fabrication for architecture

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Abstract

This parking space for bicycles has been developed and built by the bachelor students in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Interior Architecture of SUPSI DACD during the one-week seminar about 3D modeling and digital fabrication. The structure is about 84 unique pieces cut with the CNC at the Fablab SUPSI.

Datas

year

2020

scope

SUPSI, teaching

tutors

Marco Lurati Michele Cutolo Serena Cangiano Valentina Meldi

students

Anita Antic, Davide Baggio, Viola Curti, Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Kraehenbuehl, Martina Mabellini, Lorenzo Monga, Simone Ramasco, Kevin Truaisch

course

FabLab Seminars 2019/2020

license

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

links

Fablabs.io Fablabmanager SUPSI Wikifactory

process

The project was developed during two different weeks, one in September 2019, where the students learned how to design in a parametric CAD program (Fusion 360 of Autodesk). They worked on the structure's concept and form using the laser cutter and CNC machine. They could study aesthetic patterns, technical construction solutions, and wood joins.

During the second week in February 2020, the focus has been on finalizing the design and the 3D model to generate all the CAM files for the CNC machine and do the production and assembly of the structure.

The overall structure was composed of 98 unique wood panels cut with the CNC machine at the Fablab SUPSI for four days. The cutting bit used was a diameter of 12mm with a chip breaker profile that allowed cutting full depth (15mm) in one pass only on the powerful ShopBot Buddy milling machine.

The cutter's right choice and settings have been essential to cut everything in time—the cutting settings were at the edge of what the cutter could withstand.

  • 3D model done in Fusion 360 from witch also all the CNC files has been generated (CAM)
  • Rendering preview (Blender)
  • The join choosed has a big surface area to be easily glued
  • The CNC precision allows to have perfect fit between the pieces
  • The structure is held together with wooden blocks only, no nails or screws
  • The backbone parts ready to be mounted
  • Digital fabrication requires anyway a lots of handtools and skills
  • Assembly process
  • The joins are strong and removable
  • Almost there
  • Data driven design integrated in the structure
  • Ready to do what it was intended for

skills

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