This is an independent research, some parts are extracted from Hossein Naghavi’s MArch Thesis(Buffalo,NY-Tehran) The project is an on-site brick laying technique for parametric walls. A precedent of this research is walls with rotating bricks by Kohler and Gramazio of Zurich ETH. This project is concerned with finding other methods to reproduce the same effect with brick. The considered methods try to reduce the budget with a certain degree of leniency on precision and also providing on-site fabrication possibility in order to make the luxurious reachable for a greater group. The extent of human-eye ability to distinguish the ambiguity which is called ‘error’ is the focus of the explorations and the drawings.The drawings try to engage in a dialogue with ambiguity from a different perspective.
Digital fabrication has made an excessive degree of precision available to a great society. However, still a considerable part of building industry functions with a lower precision, and to a certain degree uses the production methods of the last century. This project looks for the digital revolution; the phenomenon many other fields (like product design with DIYs) have gone through relying on open-source. To find the barriers to such revolutiony the project rethinks the role of human and machine in the production process. The result is a professional DIY, A DIY for architects,which is the first most valuable outcome of the project and can be found on my website.
Another unfinished outcome is a kind of article which only contains 19 quotations some selected from my master Thesis, which are result of using Francesca Hughes' "Architecture of Error"(MITpress2014) as a starting point and looking to other disciplines including translation studies, cultural studies and humanities,etc. texts to rethink and seek the costs, boundaries and cures of mostly invisible phenomenon called precision fetishism in architecture.
I have tried to create a matrix of already existing written data in a desired order to try to create a meaningful composition which contains the answer in different layers. keywords: Technology, Craft, Architecture as Translation, Translation studies, Error, Precision, Hybrids, Cyborg, DIY
To hire a strategy against precision the most precise has been pushed one level back from the final product and created the other outcome which would potentially live longer than the others,the stencils, the approximatory bridges hired to make the project possible on its very tight budget. The technology costs are not considerable, just the laser cut for the stencils. The kit of 17 stencils is available as a product on my website, and obviously various patterns can easily be produced relying on Grasshopper. The grasshopper code is in a way the simplest possible code on ever. It just rotates the bricks in a domain of a 9-27 based on their distance from a surface modeled in rhino, quite straight forward.
The article, the DIY, The product and more on sstudiomm.tk
