InterLattice

This is a process-based design research project that reimagines traditional manual tube bending techniques with the precision and efficiency of digital formative fabrication. Leveraging the positional accuracy of industrial robots using custom tools to bend and interweave metal tubes in geometrically complex and spatially precise loops, the research follows a lineage of projects 1&2 exploring the application of robotic bending of linear elements, primarily in solid-core rod form3. The material limitation of rod diameters conducive to bending constrains the span and length of the members, indirectly limiting the overall size of the resultant product. Solid profiles also prove far from ideal in terms of material efficiency when considering structural cross sections for scaling up to larger inhabitable structures.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.24

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

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1