Wood Waste to Pumped Paste: Leveling the Playing Field Using Inventive Design Proxies

3D printing has been opening new frontiers in the production of complex shape and form geometries using parametric design models over the past twenty plus years. These processes are transforming the nature of form, space, and materiality in architecture. Emerging capabilities to print varied material types have made new processes come into clearer views as having the potential to both transform the figural properties of things but also to save enormous amounts of material in the process. In this paper, we discuss 3D printing experiments accomplished using wood flour and a robotic arm extrusion printer in an interdisciplinary advanced research studio at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and a follow-up project that explored some of the ideas that emerged from that studio.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.35

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1