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The Stone Cladding Code

DSP

By Erez Klapper

4.533 Programming Conceptions Instructor: Juhong Park

Once up on a time… Jerusalem the orthogonal city

…And Nowadays Jerusalem the orthogonal city

Conventional Cladding System

From dimension Stone to cladding Jerusalem stone hasn't changed much during the years, and nor has its quarrying and production. Previously, the stone was chiseled as blocks to build walls, but currently the stone is used as a covering element –hung on concrete or steel.

Precedents _Case Study

Yas marina Hotel Dubai (Under Construction) Marble Curtain, Gang Studio Architects National Building Museum (2004) Robotically Fabricated Stone Shell Harvard _ GSD (2009)

The Initial Envelope

The thickness dimension

Chiseling & Refinement

Connection & Roughness

The Natural Row Material

Quadrilateral Facets

Unroll the parts

Automatic Process _ Using ABB 4400-L30

Cutting & Assembling

Unroll the exemplar parts

Quadrilateral Facets Flexible Joint

Code Sketch

Two Layer Concept

Code Sketch

Two Layer Concept

Diagrams

Model for Fabrication

Double curved Surface

Model for Fabrication

Subdivision & Optimize

Model for Fabrication

Mesh Boundaries + Loft Normal

Model for Fabrication

Mesh Boundaries + Loft Normal

Lofted Rectangles Original Surface Spitted Surface Joined Tiles

Relocation _ Unroll &Pack

Further work need to be done _ Relocation

Quad Planar Bottom Smooth Upper Surface

Four points Intersection

Further work need to be done…

Quad Planar Bottom Polylines shearing an edge Smooth Upper Surface There is a deviation

Thank you!