Wood Wind, Urban Furniture

TU Delft 1:1 interactive design course
Designing a stress optimized multifunctional bench
integrating Grasshopper, Rhinoceros

1:1 interactive design course in TUdelft is a course to research robotic fabrication and generative design through Voronoi 3d generation.

Woodwind is an interactive bench that serves multifunctions as urban communal furniture. As seatings, shelter, and waiting areas for water taxis integrated with programs such as musical instruments and wind lightings.

The design of woodwind is based on the point cloud data generated from the structural analysis of where people would sit. I was responsible for the Grasshopper script for geometry creation, the script for the 3d print toolpath, and the rendering process of the final application.

1) From the SubD shape adapted to the human weight and with voronoi sections,

2) Generate the structural analysis mesh and a structural analysis field (point cloud) where people’s weights were added,

3) Generate a 3D voronoi including the limitation angle of the robotinc printing as well as manipulating the porosity and scale of the voronoi cells.

The project further researched manufacturing methods of 3d printing the furniture using robot arms. I generated a sliced path from the final shape (video on the right). The continuous 3d tool path generated in Grasshopper is a 3d print path for the robotic arm to print a 60x60x60 cm prototype.

The Woodwind takes Concept of Voronoi using parametrically generated point-cloud in the means of functional, structural, material, and operational use.

It is a multifunctional bench with regular seating areas, shelters and tribune, which relates oneself with multiple social interactions with users and the surrounding environment.



Modeling - Rhinoceros and Grasshopper
3D toolpath slicing - grasshopper
Rendering - Enscape