Design & Technology
Felipe Oeyen ( M Arch ) Jong In Choi ( M Arch )
The following report depicts the process of developing a digital model and the construction of a material prototype in MDF, using kerfing patterns, as part of the Architectural Association Emtech Design & Technology exercise.In the first section we explore the design strategies carried out in order to design and build a new protoype, taking into account the material produced during bootcamp. Going from the digital model, to the construction of the first pieces. In the second section we conduct a series of material tests in MDF, exploring kerfing techniques to increase the material capacity to bend, trying to understand the correlation between surface removal, stiffness, bendability and brittleness. In the third section we divide our model into parts and study the kerfing patterns to be applied to MDF, with the aim of setting the optimal ones for the parametrization and manufacture of each one of our pieces. Looking for the shorter production time and the highest stiffness. Finally we extract conclusions from our built prototype and set a possible direction to pursue the investigation, considering the failures found on the construction and incorporating what we learnt in the manufacture and assembly proccess to our digital parametric model.