Abstract
The constant increase in urban areas has distanced people from nature and this shows major health implications. Green areas within urban spaces provide spaces for leisure and recreation, which leads to social improvements. This research seeks to create products that improves social interaction within urban green spaces focusing on leisure. To produce a product to be installed in an urban space, large-scale robotic extrusion-based additive manufacturing equipment was used. As well as being more sustainable than conventional production methods, this process is an innovative form of production that allows the creation of large unique parts in a shorter time. Therefore, this research presents the operation and the programming necessary to achieve this type of product resorting, mainly to parametric design models and the procedure implemented to communicate these designs to the robotic extrusion-based equipment.
Presenters
Alvaro SampaioAssociate Professor, Architectura, Art and Design, University of Minho, Portugal
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2025 Special Focus—Thinking, Learning, Doing: Plural Ways of Design
KEYWORDS
Product Design, Additive Manufacturing, Robotic Fabrication, Urban Spaces, Parametric Design
