Adding Matter

How can traditional Japanese joinery be reworked through computational design?

For: UVA Architecture Studio Fall 2019
Duration: 12 weeks
Role: Architectural design + rendering, Physical fabrication
Tools: Rhino3D, Adobe CC, VRay, Grasshopper + Ameba, Physical Fabrication
Team: Andrew Spears, Sarah Miller
Professors: Lucia Phinney, Phillip Yuen

01 Under-standing Joints

Before applying computational design, a basic understanding of various typologies of joints was needed, with research focusing on how 4 different joints were built.

These joints were then recreated and prepped for stochastic aggregation in Grasshopper

02 Stochastic Aggregation

Taking the basic traditional Japanese joinery, iterations on foundational aggregations could be generated to give a sense of how these joints can come together.