Concrete choreography: 3D-printed scenery for the Origen festival brought to the Alps |
Posted: November 19, 2019 |
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Source: www.youtube.com Students of the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich created an installation of nine columns printed using a 3D printer based on an industrial robotic manipulator. Decorative columns will decorate the stage of the Origen festival, where Mariinsky Theater artists will perform. The installation was created specifically for the annual Origen cultural festival in the alpine commune of Riom-Parsonz, where the Swiss celebrate a mixture of French, German and Romansh culture, managing to find a common language. The installation consists of nine columns 2.7 meters high each. Each column has its own design, demonstrating the capabilities of 3D printing technology with cement mixtures, especially in terms of the production of customized architectural forms. Column design under the supervision of teachers was carried out by students of the Department of Digital Production Technology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich (ETH Zurich), and the task of translating digital models into tangible forms fell to the robotized additive system designed there, so that the hollow structures are made with the maximum level of automation and without the use of formwork. The complex shape of the products is not only decorative in nature: the design of the columns is calculated in the direction of achieving the necessary strength with minimal use of consumables. On average, 3D printing of one column required 1,600 meters of cement “thread” and two and a half machine hours. The thickness of each layer is five millimeters with a width of two and a half centimeters, and the material was laid at a speed of 180 mm / s. The installation will decorate the stage where traditional dance performances will take place, including the Mariinsky Theater ballet troupe. And this is far from all that Swiss printer builders from ETH Zurich can do. In March this year, the official opening of DFAB took place in Dubendorf, an experimental building made using a variety of digital techniques, including 3D printing of walls, manufacturing of reinforced ceilings using 3D printing forms, and even robotic assembly of wooden frames. Students of the Zurich Swiss Higher Technical School created installation of nine columns printed using a 3D printer based on an industrial robotic arm. Decorative columns will decorate the stage of the Origen festival, where Mariinsky Theater artists will perform. The installation was created specifically for the annual Origen cultural festival in the alpine commune of Riom-Parsonz, where the Swiss celebrate a mixture of French, German and Romansh culture, managing to find a common language. The installation consists of nine columns 2.7 meters high each. Each column has its own design, demonstrating the capabilities of 3D printing technology with cement mixtures, especially in terms of the production of customized architectural forms. Column design under the supervision of teachers was carried out by students of the Department of Digital Production Technology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich (ETH Zurich), and the task of translating digital models into tangible forms fell to the robotized additive system designed there, so that the hollow structures are made with the maximum level of automation and without the use of formwork. The complex shape of the products is not only decorative in nature: the design of the columns is calculated in the direction of achieving the necessary strength with minimal use of consumables. On average, 3D printing of one column required 1,600 meters of cement “thread” and two and a half machine hours. The thickness of each layer is five millimeters with a width of two and a half centimeters, and the material was laid at a speed of 180 mm / s. The installation will decorate the stage where traditional dance performances will take place, including the Mariinsky Theater ballet troupe. And this is far from all that Swiss printer builders from ETH Zurich can do. In March of this year, the official opening of DFAB took place in Dubendorf, an experimental building made using a variety of digital techniques, including 3D-printing of walls, manufacturing of reinforced ceilings using 3D-printed forms, and even a robotic assembly of wooden frames.
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