Epicycloid

This project allowed for the exploration of large scale 3D printing, with the purpose of re-considering the entire design - to - production process and introducing robotic and digital fabrication as part of the toolset available for the production of intricately crafted interior objects and designs.

Through this exploration, a different approach to the typical methodology of built-up layer-by-layer 3D printing was taken, instead, a substrate was built and a two-dimensional path for the robot to follow was printed above from the substrate, adding the element of gravity. How the plastic falls is happenstance, however, we can control the substrate, the path of the robot and other constraints such as speed and height.

This study is about the intersection of linear and radial grids that inform each other, once the object was printed both the linear and radial grids were noticeable depending on the viewed perspective.