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Sara Codarin: Robotic Clay Additive Manufacturing

Architecture and Design
Department of Architecture
Industry Immersion, Industry Sponsored Research, Interdisciplinary Agility, Materials and Manufacturing, Research

Sponsored by CoAD SeedOUT grant
Collaborator: Matthew DiMaggio

The research investigates robotic additive manufacturing processes for applications in architecture. The sector of automation in construction is undergoing momentum given to a convergence of relevant key factors in the framework of Digital Transformation. The increasing cost of skilled labor with the simultaneous depreciation of software and hardware raises questions concerning the need to reinterpret building site practices. Although the pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in the downstream phases, the increasing accessibility of data, tools, interfaces and shared knowledge suggests that multidisciplinary research in the building industry will enable a digital continuum from design to construction. The goal of the research is to produce full-scale concrete prototypes of algorithmically designed building units. To undertake this study, a robotic clay extruder was set up at CoAD with the intention of exploring design possibilities before confronting complexity and constraints at the architectural scale. This work has the ambition to leverage the technological culture within the University and contribute to valorizing the manufacturing heritage in Detroit. The study is a medium to train future professionals and create more capacity to use advanced tools for generative design and architectural production.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.