Soft Modular Pneumatic System A Biologically-inspired Smart Building System
by Daekwon Park (MDes '12) This thesis investigates the design process of biologically-inspired smart building…
Topic Fabrication
Surface Deep: Reford Gardens, Grand Metis, Quebec, Canada
Surface Deep is a new garden recently installed within the entry sequence for the visitors to the Reford Gardens' Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec, Canada. Supported by the Department of Landscape Architecture, the project's design was led by Harvard Graduate School of Design lecturers Leire Asensio Villoria and David Syn Chee Mah and developed and fabricated in collaboration with students from the Landscape Architecture and Architecture programs at the Harvard GSD.
Robokline
Franz Kline’s Black and White series serves as the inspiration for this project. How can…
Ceramic Futures
Martin Bechthold, Professor of Architectural Technology, and Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology, with…
Ceramic Futures 1.0: Robotic Fabrication for Daylighting Design
The customization of architectural components has long been a core issue in the design and production of architecture. Today’s environmentally performative buildings rely more than ever on the fabrication of highly individualized components. This trend is most prominent in contemporary building envelope systems. Architectural ceramics,…
Surfacing Stone
The research explores the design and analysis of a thin marble shell that incorporates the…
Assembly
Lluis Ortega, curator …
Concrete Origami
This project researched parametric design and related fabrication methods for cementitious composite folded plate systems.