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  • Surface/Path

    CNC Milling Exploration

    In Collaboration with Idan Naor, Aaron Berman,
    and Juan Saldarriaga

    Columbia GSAPP Formworks

    Instructed by Josh Draper

    Fall 2011

    Surface/path is an exercise in discovering the potential in creating volume through point, line, and surface. Digitally created surfaces can be reverse-engineered into basic information sets that can then inform the CNC machine. In this exercise we extracted the isocurves from surfaces, which are broken down and reconnected. The physically generated volumes can then take on a continuous logic that travels through an infinitely mutational field of geometry - all of which can be read through the continuous grain of its machining path.

  • surface path CNC grasshopper scripting silicone concrete casting HDPE fabric formwork

    Extraction of machine paths from surface.

  • surface path CNC grasshopper scripting silicone concrete casting HDPE fabric formwork
  • surface path CNC grasshopper scripting silicone concrete casting HDPE fabric formwork

    CNC milled foam molds with corresponding concrete casts.

  • surface path CNC grasshopper scripting silicone concrete casting HDPE fabric formwork

    Script variation on tessellated surface.

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