CD or AD?

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

CD or AD?

Here's a few sample sheets from our set of construction drawings. Unlike the typical 2D construction document set you would find on a conventional building site, our drawings relate more to an IKEA flat-pack assembly diagram, with 2D views identifying an array of individual pre-fabricated components, and a series of procedural 3D views detailing how to orient and assemble them.

There are three main categories for components, all of which are pre-fabricated and delivered to site:

1. Steel
2. Fibre-C
3. EPDM Rubber Gaskets (joints)

All drawings have been produced exclusively in Rhino 4's drawing layout functions, with some help from the Technical Drawing Plug-in.

Additionally, the 1:10 physical model has been taken down to the site, and is being used as a live "construction reference" during the assembly process.

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ALAN DEMPSEY

Alan Dempsey studied at the Architectural Association, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked with Farjadi Architects, OCEAN, Future Systems and is a founding director of NEX, a London based architecture and design office with international projects.

He was an undergraduate unit master at the AA until 2005 and has been an invited critic at universities in the UK and Europe. His work has been widely published in the US, Europe and Asia and he is currently a director of the FAB research cluster at the AA, which facilitates research projects on novel design and fabrication technologies.

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ALVIN HUANG

Alvin Huang is the founding Director of SYNTHESIS. He is an award-winning designer and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he was a founding director of London-based architectural practice AL_A. He has also worked for Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and DMJM Design (AECOM).

Alvin received a Masters of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California (1998).

Huang has taught design studios at the Architectural Association / Tsinghua University Global School in Beijing and at the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has been an invited critic and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and China.

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