Week 12: Molding and casting

Apr 19 2017


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Assignment

Design a 3D mold, machine it, and use it to cast parts


Machines

CNC ROUTER M1 by MECANO

Software

Rhinoceros 5.0

Rhino CAM

Mach 3


Materials

CNC Router Bits

Expanded polystyrene

Gypsum

Milling the Mold

Guatemalan architect with specialization in urban design and planning. Consultant for mobility and territorial planning for the initiative of emerging and sustainable cities of the Inter-American Development Bank ICES QUETZALTENANGO. ICES uses a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to address the main obstacles to sustainable growth in the emerging cities of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Founder and director of La Granja Fab Lab first lab in Guatemala, a digital fabrication laboratory based in Quetzaltenango, which It is dedicated to research and experimentation of social innovation projects to provide local solutions in context.

Professor of architecture and urbanism at CUNOC -Centro Universitario de Occidente-Recent Works.

Interested in participating in Fab LAT, and in the projects Fab City and Fab Kids







Casting

Guatemalan architect with specialization in urban design and planning. Consultant for mobility and territorial planning for the initiative of emerging and sustainable cities of the Inter-American Development Bank ICES QUETZALTENANGO. ICES uses a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to address the main obstacles to sustainable growth in the emerging cities of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Founder and director of La Granja Fab Lab first lab in Guatemala, a digital fabrication laboratory based in Quetzaltenango, which It is dedicated to research and experimentation of social innovation projects to provide local solutions in context.

Professor of architecture and urbanism at CUNOC -Centro Universitario de Occidente-Recent Works.

Interested in participating in Fab LAT, and in the projects Fab City and Fab Kids



Unmold

Guatemalan architect with specialization in urban design and planning. Consultant for mobility and territorial planning for the initiative of emerging and sustainable cities of the Inter-American Development Bank ICES QUETZALTENANGO. ICES uses a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to address the main obstacles to sustainable growth in the emerging cities of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Founder and director of La Granja Fab Lab first lab in Guatemala, a digital fabrication laboratory based in Quetzaltenango, which It is dedicated to research and experimentation of social innovation projects to provide local solutions in context.

Professor of architecture and urbanism at CUNOC -Centro Universitario de Occidente-Recent Works.

Interested in participating in Fab LAT, and in the projects Fab City and Fab Kids



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