Built-to-Scale: Prototypes from the Architecture Student Research Grant
[2023] exhibition, designer
Work completed in collaboration with the 2022 ASRG cohort
Project Index
1. Overview
2. Robotic Exhalation
3. Collaborators
External Links
Press Release ︎︎︎
Work featured in Dimensions vol.36 ︎︎︎
1. Overview
2. Robotic Exhalation
3. Collaborators
External Links
Press Release ︎︎︎
Work featured in Dimensions vol.36 ︎︎︎
Exhibition Overview
Built to Scale brings together the research of three distinct projects, organized and executed in totality by students currently enrolled at University of Michigan, Taubman College.
These projects, funded by the Architecture Student Research Grant and in part by ArtsEngine’s Arts Integrative Interdisciplinary Research Grant, engage with a multiplicity of issues from the future of biomaterials to novel fabrication methodologies and open-source knowledge.
These projects are “built to scale” for two readings - the work on display at Liberty Annex features prototypes from the research, constructed at 1:1 scale; these projects are also intended to scale, designed to grow beyond their immediate context of the exhibition, in turn contributing to critical domains within current architectural discourse. We hope our efforts stoke your imagination and expand your perception of agency within student research.
Robotic Exhalation
Robotic Exhalation is featured in the exhibition, showcasing work completed by Garnett and Elliot Smithberger.
This project explores the materiality of concrete, developing a surface patterning process through the use of pneumatics and rheological properties. This work dematerializes formwork needed to create complex concrete geometries while simultaneously substituting novel means and methods in favor of ubiquitous ones.
The object-scale product of this process exploration is reimagined as a building-scale rainscreen cladding for the exhibition. A kiosk, designed and fabricated by the research team, displays a catalog of 12” x 12” concrete panels. These objects contain fossilized process parameters within the contours of their surface, resulting in a facade-scale aggregation the embeds and obscures the methodology used for its creation within the material itself.
You can read more about Robotic Exhalation at the dedicated project page on this site, or in Dimensions vol.36.
Collaborators
Robotic Exhalation was featured in the exhibition alongside two other research projects:
+ Signs of Life
Axel Olson
+ Second Skin
Ellie Ervin, Maya Fraser, Gayathri Sivakumar, Douglas Tsui
Exhibition coordination and promotion was handled by project teams and ARC, U-M student body organization.
Poster graphic advertising event created by Axel Olson.
Built to Scale brings together the research of three distinct projects, organized and executed in totality by students currently enrolled at University of Michigan, Taubman College.
These projects, funded by the Architecture Student Research Grant and in part by ArtsEngine’s Arts Integrative Interdisciplinary Research Grant, engage with a multiplicity of issues from the future of biomaterials to novel fabrication methodologies and open-source knowledge.
These projects are “built to scale” for two readings - the work on display at Liberty Annex features prototypes from the research, constructed at 1:1 scale; these projects are also intended to scale, designed to grow beyond their immediate context of the exhibition, in turn contributing to critical domains within current architectural discourse. We hope our efforts stoke your imagination and expand your perception of agency within student research.
Robotic Exhalation
Robotic Exhalation is featured in the exhibition, showcasing work completed by Garnett and Elliot Smithberger.
This project explores the materiality of concrete, developing a surface patterning process through the use of pneumatics and rheological properties. This work dematerializes formwork needed to create complex concrete geometries while simultaneously substituting novel means and methods in favor of ubiquitous ones.
The object-scale product of this process exploration is reimagined as a building-scale rainscreen cladding for the exhibition. A kiosk, designed and fabricated by the research team, displays a catalog of 12” x 12” concrete panels. These objects contain fossilized process parameters within the contours of their surface, resulting in a facade-scale aggregation the embeds and obscures the methodology used for its creation within the material itself.
You can read more about Robotic Exhalation at the dedicated project page on this site, or in Dimensions vol.36.
Collaborators
Robotic Exhalation was featured in the exhibition alongside two other research projects:
+ Signs of Life
Axel Olson
+ Second Skin
Ellie Ervin, Maya Fraser, Gayathri Sivakumar, Douglas Tsui
Exhibition coordination and promotion was handled by project teams and ARC, U-M student body organization.
Poster graphic advertising event created by Axel Olson.
