Open Framework
With Dishant Patel
& Mohammad Karkoutly
Supported by the Rackham Graduate Research Grant
Open Framework is a custom grasshopper plugin that uses hobbyist-scale fabrication machines (3D printers) to produce functional architectural spaceframes. In its current form, it is a digital design tool capable of producing low-cost, easy-to-assemble spaceframe structures; equally suited to generating parts and construction data for models, tools, and storage, as for furniture or pavilions. Regardless of size, the joints generated with Open Frame can be produced with any 3D printer, by anyone with general knowledge of CAD modeling software, and assembled with minimal, easily accessible tools. Ultimately, we envision Open Framework as a democratized design method where 3D printers, or other small-scale fabrication machines, can be leveraged past model-making duties, to act as distributed agents for architectural scale production.
With Dishant Patel
& Mohammad Karkoutly
Supported by the Rackham Graduate Research Grant
Open Framework is a custom grasshopper plugin that uses hobbyist-scale fabrication machines (3D printers) to produce functional architectural spaceframes. In its current form, it is a digital design tool capable of producing low-cost, easy-to-assemble spaceframe structures; equally suited to generating parts and construction data for models, tools, and storage, as for furniture or pavilions. Regardless of size, the joints generated with Open Frame can be produced with any 3D printer, by anyone with general knowledge of CAD modeling software, and assembled with minimal, easily accessible tools. Ultimately, we envision Open Framework as a democratized design method where 3D printers, or other small-scale fabrication machines, can be leveraged past model-making duties, to act as distributed agents for architectural scale production.
