DIGITAL FABRICATION & DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES | TU BERLIN (GERMANY) | 2018 | TEAM: TU BERLIN (GERMANY), ETSAE (SPAIN) | TYPOLOGY: HABITAT/ DIGITAL

The main objective of this seminar is to design and build different prototypes of deployable structures that can colonise a space to be inhabited temporarily. Both, the notion of inhabiting as the development of deployable structures imply an indeterminate character. Therefore, we propose students to design an “inhabitable cell”: studying possible activities that could be carried out inside a minimal space, and at the same time, to think about the structural system chosen and the future construction of this prototype. Each team of students –between 4 or 5 people- will design their prototype for a maximum area of 2.40 x 2.40 m. Students will start their designs following different basic schemes of deployable structures, given by the teachers, although during the process each team could propose and explore other alternatives and more complex designs. Teams will consider in their projects different ways to optimise their designs, and the prototypes should be built attending to limited space and time.

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