Orchestration_F08

Publication in A+U

carrb2 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:04:09 +0000

Hello there! as a general update on the project we are very pleased to see the Parpados Wall in print! We were included in the Japanese architecture magazine A+U: Special Issue August 2009: Architectural Transformations via BIM. There is an interview with Dave Fano about the Orchestration class, and also with Ben and some of the other students about the projects. There are plenty of great assembly and completed mock-up photos. It is an extremely interesting issue of A+U if you are into BIM and fabrication- which you probably are if youre reading this! Comments always welcome, even now, a year after the project began.

Orchestration F08 Mockup Photos

carrb2 — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:09:52 +0000

Hello out there, needless to say were extremely happy to be posting photos of our full scale panel mockup, after all teh hard work we now have a facade panel to show for it. The panel was fabricated at Maloya Laser on Long Island, and assembled by us on campus in time for the GSAPP end of year show. we had a very good spot, right in front of the Avery building, to stick the panel on the lawn and see how the louvers worked in the sunlight. thanks for anybody who has been keeping up with the blog, and as always comments are always welcome to keep the conversation going-

ben

Fabrication Update/Autodesk Slidecasts

carrb2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:26:10 +0000

All 3 groups in the Orchestration class were interviewed by Debra Pothier at Autodesk Student Community to talk about the class, and the ways in which Revit or Inventor were helpful. We are using a combination of Revit, Rhino and Autocad to design the panels. here are the youtube links to the interviews, they are split up into 3 files.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1BLIL2RHdE

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EUBb9es0I

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPak7-9SyP0

Also, the steel and aluminum parts for the panels, are currently being lasercut, bent and welded on Long Island by Maloya Laser, Inc and should be ready in 2 weeks to be assembled (by us) into the full scale visual mockup. More to come!

Fabrication drawings 040109

carrb2 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:45:23 +0000

a new set of fabrication drawings…in communication with Maloya… A06 and A07 are the most interesting drawings, showing assembly process and part quantities. If you happen to find it interesting.

orchestration update

carrb2 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:11:23 +0000

we have visited Maloya Laser again, last week, to discuss the Parpados mockup. We have made some design changes, and are working on a new drawing set to send to them, to begin the real deal. also, our project has made it onto autodesk’s student community website, with some phone interviews with us and dave fano. they are finishing it up and posting it soon. stay tuned!!

Final Review- drawing set

carrb2 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:28 +0000

Maloya Laser Visit

carrb2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:45:20 +0000

So as a result of Final Reviews this post is way late…but still worth getting the images up on the blog. On monday, 11/17/08 we took another field trip, this time to Maloya Laser in Commack, Long Island. Theses guys are a family business going back 2 generations, and have evolved into a specialty metal fabrication firm. They have become heavily involved in Lasercutting, and have projects in Architectural exteriors, interior finishes, railings, furniture, signage, jewelry, and more. 2 architectural projects that they have recently completed are the plaques at the Rose Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History, as well as the Porter House condo by SHop Architects, both of which were laser-cut and bent flat metal stock. We got a factory tour from Reto Hug, the president of the company, and saw their massive lasercutters and bending presses. Here are a few pictures of the place:

and some work examples:

and very interesting some of the sample zinc panels they had from the Porter House:

overall a very productive visit. they work with many different file types when communicating with architects, so we are working to tighten up our digital model now.

also the post from the JYJ guys: http://jyjorchestration.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/maloya-laser-field-trip/

Island Exterior Fabricators visit

carrb2 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:24:55 +0000

We took a trip out to Calverton, Long Island, on thursday 11/6 to go to Island International Fabricators- specifically, the exteriors department, where they manufacture unitized facade panel systems.

they are located in the old Grumman airplane engine manufacturing hangars, so they have enough space inside these huge buildings to lay out entire building facades flat on the floor and prefabricate them like that before trucking the panels into the city for putting up on a building. this way, they are able to have quality and climate control while building the panels, and they can build them much faster.

Their hangars are literally so large that at one end, there is a pile of stock, and at the other end, they are putting finished panels on flatbed trucks to send to the job site. the panels move along the length of the assembly line with giant cranes on overhead tracks.

They have separate hangars for different processes, such as metal panels or masonry finishes.

These guys are the facade fabricators for the HL23 building in Chelsea, and they had some mockups of the metal facade panels. they are currently making a giant mockup- all we saw was the frame that will hold the mockup, which was pretty impressive on its own.

they also have enough room to build and hold on to full scale performance and visual mockups, some getting as large as 2 stories tall. They have them lined up behind the hangars, in what they call “mockup alley”. it is an accumulation of different architectural styles and finishes, really a very bizarre and interesting side to the factory.

We also got to discuss our project with them, getting some feedback on the best way to unitize the system into larger panels, so that we can prefabricate the curtain wall into flor-to-floor spanning parts.

But despite all the high-tech tools, materials, and processes they have at Island, sometimes it just gets back to basics.

It was a fantastic trip, and great to see the process of facade construction for these buildings which are mostly just a subway ride away in Chelsea or other parts of the city.

Plus the 2 hour train ride was perfect timing for a nap.

FRONT inc. Office Visit

carrb2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:10:14 +0000

so on saturday 11/1 we were able to go to Front Inc., the facade consultant in SoHo, in order to show the project to one of the partners and get feedback. it was a very productive meeting, now that we have the global system laid out and we are more focused on detailing and panel connections. here is the drawing set we showed them:

AS ALWAYS…comments welcome.

Midterm Drawing Set

carrb2 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:18:20 +0000

Here is our midterm drawing set from today’s class.

anybody, please comment if you find something interesting/related/alarming about the project! be the 1st person to post a response!! it will make you very cool we promise