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FORMAKERS will take advantage of the "digital fabrication REvolution". We publish projects of urban design/ architectural research/ fashion design/ 3d print/ parametric design / architecture model /photography and much more.FORMAKERS invites architects, designers, artists, students, scientists and individuals of all backgrounds to explore, research and investigate new design paradigms and urban visions.

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09OCT 2014

KERF PAVILION / MIT architecture

Posted in Architecture - Pavilion by * FORMAKERS

“This pavilion is the culmination of a semester’s research into a novel digital fabrication technique by a team of graduate students in the MIT Department of Architecture.

The design of the pavilion is the result of an old technique reinvented using digital strategies and tools.

Kerfing, the cutting of wood to add flexibility, has a long history in wood working.

Our research combined the material logic of kerfing with the flexibility of parametric modeling and the accuracy of a CNC router.

Our parametric model integrated all the digital steps in the modeling and fabrication process, from initial control over the global form to the unrolling and generation of the cut patterns required to make each unit.