RobArch2016 DynamoBUILD workshop in Sydney Australia

Using a combination of Dynamo, Autodesk React Structures, and the new Dynamo-to-Robot workflow, the goal of this workshop was to design, evaluate, and fabricate a large format prototypical spatial structure. Dynamo is a graphical programming environment for exploring parametric designs that lets artists, architects, and engineers create visual logic to explore parametric concepts. This workshop was the first public test of the new Dynamo-to-Robot workflow. Throughout the workshop, collaborators engaged in the iterative design, structural optimization, and fabrication of the experimental spatial structure shown here. In this case, formal complexity is resolved through functional complexity that emerges in both units of the structural system—the node and the strut—while each also maintains a level of simplicity appropriate to respective manufacturing processes and material properties.