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The Tectonics of Digitally Fabricated Concrete (2018-09)

A Case for Robotic Hot Wire-Cutting

10.1007/978-3-319-99519-9_29

 Martins Pedro, de Campos Paulo,  Nunes Sandra,  Sousa José
Contribution - Proceedings of the 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, pp. 311-322

Abstract

In the last decades, digital fabrication technologies have stimulated the materialization of complex and customized solutions in several materials. Recently, the integration of these technologies with such a variable and rich material as concrete has prompted an explosion of possible processes and outcomes for digitally fabricated concrete structures. In this context, this paper examines current digital fabrication strategies for concrete, focusing on their applications and in identifying critical issues for their adoption. From this point, through the presentation of two case studies, we propose and discuss Robotic Hot Wire Cutting as a technically and tectonically relevant digital fabrication technology for customized concrete architecture.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{mart_camp_nune_sous.2019.TToDFC,
  author            = "Pedro Filipe Martins and Paulo Fonseca de Campos and Sandra Nunes and José Pedro Sousa",
  title             = "The Tectonics of Digitally Fabricated Concrete: A Case for Robotic Hot Wire-Cutting",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-319-99519-9_29",
  year              = "2019",
  volume            = "19",
  pages             = "311--322",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2018",
  editor            = "Timothy Paul Wangler and Robert Johann Flatt",
}
Formatted Citation

P. F. Martins, P. F. de Campos, S. Nunes and J. P. Sousa, “The Tectonics of Digitally Fabricated Concrete: A Case for Robotic Hot Wire-Cutting”, in Proceedings of the 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2018, 2019, vol. 19, pp. 311–322. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99519-9_29.

Martins, Pedro Filipe, Paulo Fonseca de Campos, Sandra Nunes, and José Pedro Sousa. “The Tectonics of Digitally Fabricated Concrete: A Case for Robotic Hot Wire-Cutting”. In Proceedings of the 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2018, edited by Timothy Paul Wangler and Robert Johann Flatt, 19:311–22, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99519-9_29.