New service in the building industry: Planning and remark automation for complex draft geometry

Complexity under control: Mercedes Benz museum Stuttgart of UN Studio (openPR) - ETH research group and geometry advisor Arnold roll unite to the company “designtoproduction”. The bundled authority promises a quantum transition for security and economy in the implementing of free forms.

Punctually to the new year there is a much promising shoulder conclusion in the European building industry: The Stuttgart architect Arnold roll bases with a research group of the ETH Zurich the company “designtoproduction”. Roll the professional world in the past years listen attentively let with his geometrical consultation with renowned projects as Mercedes the Benz museum in Stuttgart, Paul Klee center in Berne and Cologne metropolitan city houses of Peek & Cloppenburg in Cologne. The ETH research group around Fabian Scheurer and Christoph Schindler came out from the ETH Professur for CAAD (computer Aided Architectural Design) of Ludger Hovestadt and with the economic conversion of complex forms a name made itself. Together the interdisciplinary team from architects and computer scientists on the European market wants to be established as prominent Dienstleister for the planerische conversion of failed geometry.

Thousands different individual parts firmly in the grasp
The planning of a complex building project begins usually completely harmlessly: In the 3D-Programm a free forming with few Klicks can be produced. The structural conversion against it consists - depending upon size of the object - of many thousand different individual parts. That means: Many thousand different remark plans with dimensionings, connecting details and tolerances with the architect and many thousand workshop plans and machine-oriented programmings in the implementing enterprise. Fast the planning expenditure can grow in the immeasurable and become uncalculable the error risk.

“In the last years it gave, explains a clear trend to complex forms” to Scheurer the firm idea and continues to describe: “3D-Software made the draft of free forms attractive with intuitive user surfaces easily and. The structural execution against it can become an enormous hurdle at uncontrollable expenditure, since the structures of visualizing are hardly compatible draft and materialisierenden manufacturing tools. With our service we want to make architects and building-implementing possible to take this hurdle elegantly.”

Cost lowerings to 75%
designtoproduction sets in parametric models as links between the computer-assisted draft and the computer-assisted execution: So the designer can change for design parameter, and all remark plans up to the machine code for the manufacturing are adapted automatically. Beyond that it is even possible to optimize the fine adjustment of a draft according to static or other criteria automated. The fact that such a process is not only faster, but also substantially more economical and safer than an execution planning with traditional CAD software is clear. With the research projects to the ETH could production costs with three projects around 75% be lowered. “Now the door is far open for everything that permits the creativity of the architects. The building industry arrived finally in the information age”, summarizes Scheurer the meaning of the new service.

The references of designtoproduction can be able to be seen: Architects such as Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Kees Christiaanse, Renzo Piano and UN Studio already realized projects with them.

designtoproduction GmbH
Maritime route 78
8703 Erlenbach/Zurich
Switzerland

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www.designtoproduction.com

Press contact: Christoph Schindler
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designtoproduction consultation offers to geometrically complex architecture for digital production. We supported architects, planners, engineers and implementing when economic planning and conversion of non-standardized architecture. We develop digital process chains of the draft on the basis of parametric CAD models into production and offer consultation for planning, detailing, optimization and digital manufacturing. designtoproduction a GmbH with seat is in Erlenbach/Zurich.

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