Intelligent Prefabrication

1.5 units

Digital Fabrication is often critiqued as not being scalable to larger projects since it is often associated with highly specialized small prototyping and installations. The seminar will focus on digital fabrication at the medium to large scale using a proprietary system designed by Scott Mitchell, alumni of Wash U and founder of Stud.io. The system focuses on intelligent prefabrication using custom parametric software to create a series of robotically fabricated metal studs that can be easily assembled into almost any form. The CNC machine is specifically designed to make these custom metal studs with a series of operations, promoting mass-customization. The seminar will develop full-scale prototypes.