“Painterly forms” Bachelor Studio Project

RMIT University, 2017

Supervisor: Ronald Snooks

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The projects explored the design of intricate forms, the atmospheric affects and strange qualities. Advances in robotic fabrication and building scale 3D printing is about to radically change the relationship between cost and form, with highly intricate geometries becoming cheaper than the conventional fabrication of rectilinear geometry.

This projects developed a design process that combines painterly direct operations with emergent algorithmic approaches to create a strange hybrid of the two. The projects also explore forms that are becoming possible with emerging building-scale 3D printing, in an attempt to articulate what the forms of 3D printed architecture might be and how these could be a radical departure from current architectural from-making.