Week 3: Computer-Controlled Cutting¶

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Research¶

A long time ago, I came across a japanese wooden jointless architecture, called Kigumi (in japanese 木組み). The constructions use no nails, no screws, no glue – purely relying on interlocking joints!

Interesting Links¶

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Process
da Vinci’s Self-supporting Bridge
Japanese jointless architecture
Tessellation

Parametric Construction Kit¶

For the construction kit, I came up with a design of two mirrored circle segments, subtracted from a quarter circle. Then the polar curve was rotated around the origin.

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I first created a non-parametric draft of the polar curve, and after took the measurements into the spreadsheet. Then after, I went back to sketch mode, and assigned their parametric values.

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Discovering the Kerf¶

For finding the kerf, I looked into older documentations of students from my Node. So, I proceeded with creating 10 small rectangles inserted in a larger frame.

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kerf = [innerFrame - rectangleSum] / [rectangleNum + 1]
kerf = [100,47 - 97,92] / 11
kerf = 0,2318

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