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Living Tectonics

Description This study develops nutrient-enriched soil composite inks for 3D printing, followed by mycelium colonization to create large-scale, mycelium-based living building materials (LBMs). The research focuses on enhancing the properties of 3D-printed soil...

Eco–Resilient Tectonics Architecture 

Description Eco–resilient Tectonics explores the development of living building materials (LBMs) through robotic 3D printing of earth–based substrates embedded with living organisms. LBMs offer a promising future for construction by enabling the integration of living...

Raster Orientation in Large-Scale Robotic 3D Printing of SCF-PLA  

Description Additive manufacturing in building construction can be extended for mass customization of building components or even complex mold making. This study examines the process parameters of raster orientation of short carbon fiber-reinforced polylactic acid...

Axisymmetric Column No. 1

Description Axisymmetric Column No. 1 exemplifies a novel approach to large-scale robotic additive manufacturing, utilizing curved-layer fused filament fabrication (CLFFF) on a pre-stretched textile. It explores how patterning affects CLFFF printing to develop a...

Chair No. 7: Human Parameters in Circular Design of Everyday Things

Chair No. 7: Human Parameters in Circular Design of Everyday Things Description In architectural design, the model of design to construction is constantly changing. One parameter in these permanent changes is human needs, most notably, the growing demand for...
Behavioral Robotic Fabrication

Behavioral Robotic Fabrication

ARCH 5500-001: Special Topics in Architecture
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.

Behavioral Robotic Fabrication “A system is “soft” when it is flexible, adaptable, and evolving, when it is complex and maintained by a dense network of active information or feedback loops, or, put in a more general way, when a system is able to sustain a certain...

Wood Proto-architecture II

Wood Proto-architecture II

ARCH 4010-11 / ALAR 8010: Research Studio
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.

Wood Proto-architecture II: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — A Thousand...

Computational Design and Construction

Computational Design and Construction

ARCH 5500-003: Special Topics in Architecture
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.

Introduction to Computational Design and Construction “The manifest form—that which appears—is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate in other adjacent forms (ecology). The...

Wood Proto-architecture I

Wood Proto-architecture I

ARCH 4010-11 / ALAR 8010: Research Studio
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing. and Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor Achim Menges

Wood Proto-architecture I: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — A Thousand Plateaus,...