SGER: Visual-Physical Design Grammars: Computational Synthesis And Production Of Mass Customizable Building Assembly Systems

该奖项的研究目标是为建筑装配系统的设计和制造开发新的形式语法，为住房提供视觉上丰富的设计变化。新的语法将指定结构装配部件的全尺寸视觉、物理和材料细节，并具有足够的规则来生成完整的CAD/CAM制造数据。结构系统将为特定的文化和社区量身定制，通过使用语法将当地的、乡土的、装饰的设计融入到装配设计中。将开发一个原型装配系统，用于3D装配的一个代表性部分，即角墙部分。装配系统的材料和结构方面将建立在当前对单材料、联锁、基于组件的组件的研究基础上，这些组件可以用数控机床制造，并在现场手工组装。如果成功，这项研究的结果将导致低成本、易于制造的住房的新解决办法，这在发展中国家和灾后环境中尤其重要。这些新的住房解决方案不仅提供庇护所，还通过整合熟悉的视觉设计特征来支持重要的文化价值。数字设计和制造技术的使用将使当地社区能够参与他们家园的设计和建造。与麻省理工学院Fab实验室的合作将为学生提供机会，建立全尺寸的房屋组件模型。除了房屋的特定背景之外，视觉物理语法有可能在许多尺度上对设计的人工制品的设计和制造产生积极的影响，在从产品设计到建筑设计的领域，特别是对于需要将视觉美学与物理或材料要求结合起来考虑的人工制品，设计定制或变化是很重要的。

The research objective of this award is the development of new formal grammars for the design and manufacture of building assembly systems that provide visually rich design variations for housing. The new grammars will specify the full scale visual, physical and material details of structural assembly components with sufficient rules to generate complete CAD/CAM data for fabrication. The structural systems will be tailored for particular cultures and communities by incorporating local, vernacular, decorative design into the assembly design through the use of grammars. A prototype assembly system will be developed for a representative section of a 3D assembly a corner wall section. The material and structural aspects of the assembly system will build on current research on mono-material, interlocking, component-based assemblies that can be fabricated with CNC machines and assembled by hand on-site. If successful, the results of this research will lead to new solutions for low-cost, easily manufactured housing which is especially critical in developing countries and for post-disaster environments. These new housing solutions will not only provide shelter but will also support important cultural values through the integration of familiar visual design features. The use of digital design and fabrication technologies will allow local communities to be engaged in the design and construction of their homes. Collaborations with the MIT Fab Lab will provide opportunities for students to build full-scale mock ups of housing assemblies resulting from this research. Beyond the specific context of housing, visual-physical grammars have the potential to positively impact design and manufacture of designed artifacts at many scales, and in domains from product design to building design, particularly for artifacts where visual aesthetics need to be considered jointly with physical or material requirements and design customization or variation is important.