Term: 2023
Professor: Mark Stanley
Program: Self-Directed Research
Awards:
Professor: Mark Stanley
Program: Self-Directed Research
Awards:
- Distinguished Design Award for Architectural Craft
- UTK CoAD Design Excellence
Exploring the symbiotic relationship between traditional craft and robotic fabrication in
architecture, this thesis investigates a balance between human touch and machine precision. Using pottery and ceramics as a catalyst for the project, a series of investigations and
physical experiments involving throwing, clay 3D-printing, hand sculpting, and robotic
carving attempt to highlight the effects of tool and process on form, authorship, and
value. In some cases, these experiments even question an object’s definition.
Although material remains the same throughout, the following explorations take on multiple form factors. All of which, however, share a common thread where robot and human work closely together in order to generate a geometry. Furthermore, these relationships take place at multiple scales and stages during the work. The basis of these is a sort of cyclical process where a human-made object informs a machine-made object and visa versa.
Although material remains the same throughout, the following explorations take on multiple form factors. All of which, however, share a common thread where robot and human work closely together in order to generate a geometry. Furthermore, these relationships take place at multiple scales and stages during the work. The basis of these is a sort of cyclical process where a human-made object informs a machine-made object and visa versa.
