From rapid prototyping to building in real scale: methodologies for upscaling additive manufacturing in architecture

• Author(s): Cruz, Paulo J. S. ; Figueiredo, Bruno ; Carvalho, João ; Ribeiro, João Paulo Silva
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/71564
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): 3D printing; Additive manufacturing; Material extrusion; LDM; Parametric design; Computational models
• Document Type: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

The manufacture of architectural components mediated by computer-controlled Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies has highlighted several positive aspects of their application, namely by enabling customised design solutions and high-performance complex geometries. Taking into account the experience of the Advanced Ceramics R&D Lab, in the production of small- / medium- scale prototypes, this paper explores the main variables and constraints of the production of real-scale architectural components. This information points to a set of procedures that should be avoided and others that should be privileged, allowing to anticipate how AM can contribute for the achievement of high performance components on a large scale.