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Traces of Making is a collaborative design research project by David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti, which innovates ceramic three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques in the context of architectural design. The project intends to thematize and reveal the unpredictable, “glitched”, and nuanced nature of designing ceramic architectural components using robotic processes typically understood as highly precise, top-down, and predetermined. Instead, Traces of Making demonstrates a new kind of generative design process based on collaboration between designers, robotic tools, advanced software, and nuanced material behavior through the use of sensing systems, feedback loops, and equal consideration of the agency of each of these parties in the design- making process.

Advisors: Jenny Sabin, Tao DuFour, Dasha Khapalova

A project by David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti.

Today, the implementation of robotics in the context of architecture is often characterized by the use of six-axis industrial robot arms for production of experimental design prototypes. d(e)Construction proposes the intervention of robotic systems in the e-waste (electronic waste) recycling process to more safely and precisely extract valuable landfilled materials. Through the implementation of analysis software, precision machining, and automated robotic sorting of e-waste materials, this paper proposes a method to innovate common practices in printed circuit board (PCB) recycling by removing valuable components from their substrate PCB as an alternative to unsafe chemical or melting processes. This method yields the following materials—the latter of which to be repurposed into programmable architectural skin systems:

1. Precious metals.

2. A difficult-to-recycle byproduct: a rigid PCB which has been perforated after the automated removal of its valuable components.

d(e)Construction demonstrates a subsequent use for this byproduct as part of a process of urban mining (mining materials from our existing man-made goods); the otherwise valueless perforated circuit board can now be used as a panel in an intelligent kinetic shading system—an architecture which blurs the distinction between machine/robot and responsive building. This architectural skin interfaces with its inhabitants and environment through contextually responsive and programmable behavior. By laminating the byproduct PCB with a thin-film photovoltaic and optimizing its solar orientation through kinetic actuation, the system begins to behave robotically in and of itself, harvesting solar energy and creating dynamic surfaces.

A project by Sabin Design Lab at Cornell University

Involvement : Production and fabrication of prototypes and development of material research. 

"PolyBrick showcases the next steps in the integration of complex phenomena towards the design, production, and digital fabrication of ceramic form in the design arts and architecture."

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Principal Investigator: Jenny E. Sabin
Design, Research and Production: Martin Miller, Nicholas Cassab, David Rosenwasser

A project by Sabin Design Lab at Cornell University

Involvement : Production and fabrication of prototypes and development of material research. 

"PolyBrick showcases the next steps in the integration of complex phenomena towards the design, production, and digital fabrication of ceramic form in the design arts and architecture."

Originally on display at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design as part of the exhibition, “Data Clay: Digital Strategies For Parsing The Earth”. Displayed at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2016 as part of “Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial." Featured in 2017 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. 

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Principal Investigator: Jenny E. Sabin
Design, Research and Production: Jingyang Liu Leo & David Rosenwasser

A project by Sabin Design Lab in collaboration with Luo Labs at Cornell University.

Involvement : Lead researcher, designed and fabricated prototypes using Autodesk's micron-scale 3-D Printing technology. 

"PolyBrick showcases the next steps in the integration of complex phenomena towards the design, production, and digital fabrication of ceramic form in the design arts and architecture.

This work engages advances in material science, three-dimensional (3D) printing, micro-scale mold making, DNA hydrogels, and material practices derived from crafts, and computational design disciplines. Polybrick 3.0 outlines the use of micro scale three dimensional printing technologies for the digital fabrication and production of nonstandard and inscribed ceramic block components." 

Originally on display at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design as part of the exhibition, “Data Clay: Digital Strategies For Parsing The Earth”. Displayed at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2016 as part of “Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial." Featured in 2017 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. 

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Principal Investigators: Jenny E. Sabin & Dan Luo
Design, Research and Production: David Rosenwasser & Shogo Hamada

Carrying a striking linearity via its railway lines, Havana’s central railway station was once a machine for cargo. Today the station is a slow moving and leisurely retiree, still containing a diverse array of objects and mechanisms that so purely reflect Cuba and Havana’s past. From micro to macro scale, the station is a living museum. It is an exemplary site for re-appropriation. How does one envision the future of Cuba through the lens of its most important transportation hub? One vision engages this site as Cuba is already framed by visitors. It is entirely spectacle yet still very much alive. The site as a whole is to become framed and curated, but activated. The site becomes pushed further as a hub for transportation, but uses new infrastructure for the purpose of highlighting its nostalgic characteristics. Commercial activity is replaced by the machine that is tourism, hosted by and alongside automobilia. Vast commercial structures on site host new programatic possibilities. Warehouses which once stored train cars will now situate Havana’s taxis and associated mechanics. By foot or by car, the site is experienced via intersections and networks much like Cuba’s trains move. As the museum program terminates, visitors find themselves back at the origin of Cuba’s history for movement. 

A collaboration between David Rosenwasser, Justin Foo, and Anders Evenson.

Our project seeks to appropriate and radically transform the empty space under Tolbuhinsky Bridge into both a floating skate park and pedestrian walkway, an architectural spectacle that promotes social exchange. The project is conceived as an architectural parasite, unabashedly alien but still born from pre-existing site conditions. The parasite seeks to forge new spatial and structural relationships with the bridge, church and the Yaroslavl community. Social Parasite was submitted for Socialfest’s international design competition, themed “Under The Bridge.”

Social Parasite was submitted for Socialfest's international design competition and was selected for the exhibition in Yaroslavl, Russia during September 2014.

http://socialfest.ru/w/project/social-parasite/

Situated in Rome's Trastevere and along the Tiber River, Porta Portese's site has celebrated the marketplace for centuries and hosted a unique array of complex programs. This proposal reimagines the marketplace through stratification. A new datum is constructed as landscape, hovering over the marketplace and seamlessly connecting to the tiber beneath.

Kerf Pavilion is a collaboration between James Fleming and David Rosenwasser for Cornell University AAP's Sheet to Form. 

This pavilion acts as a prototype of kerfing technology within the context of digital fabrication and aggregated assembly structures. 

A project by Jenny Sabin Studio, commissioned by Cornell University College of Human Ecology. 

Involvement : Production of physical prototypes, models, and material tests. 

"PolyForm, an inhabitable sculpture commissioned by Cornell University which will open in 2017, combines elements of eSkin with laser-cutting, developing a PolyWall structure as complex as PolyThread in its geometries, but from powder-coated steel. Produced in consultation with, and in honor of, Emeritus Professor of Fiber Science Kay Obendorf, the PolyForm pavilion will housed within transparent walls of colored film."

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The Beacon, A MEDstudio at Thomas Jefferson University project and collaboration with Jenny Sabin Studio. 

Involvement : Engaged in schematic design, prototyping, and drone weaving. 

"Building upon ongoing work at the intersection of architecture, health, medicine, textile design, fiber science, and biology, the Beacon features novel formal expressions that adapt to changes in a human-centered environment through formfitting and high-performance lightweight structures." 

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http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/10/drones-abuzz-beacon-takes-shape-philadelphia

The structural systems model is intended to develop an understanding of an existing building's unique structural makeup.

MUCEM in Marseille by Rudy Ricciotti, France is constructed from super high performance concrete and is built from entirely custom fabricated components. This includes branch-like vertical supports, highly filigreed screen panels, and long-spanning roof supports. The challenge in constructing this model was to recreate the structurally relevant systems digitally and then precisely re-craft each and every part to a high level of detail. This engaged processes of 3D printing, mold production, plaster casting and concrete finishing. It was exhibited at Cornell University's Hartell Gallery in November of 2014

The Cornell Plaster Cast collection has long sought out a permanent home. This proposal seeks to address spatial needs of the collection and consider phenomenological design intuitions. A copper clad sheet envelops this collection, allowing for gentle filtration of light to diffuse from above. Visitors ascend from deep storage through restoration facilities and eventually into the collection's galleries. 

The Storm King Art Center is a vast landscape of sculptures and earthworks in New York's Hudson Valley, surrounded by less than ideal on-site infrastructure. This project explored possibilities for creating an interactive visitors center, but one that also propelled visitors toward the extensive pathways of Storm King. 

A project by Jenny Sabin Studio

Involvement : Fabrication and assembly of final built work.  

"Techniques in parametric and associative environments are incorporated with feedback derived from material constraints as well as performance assessments. The project interrogates the physical interface between networking behavior and fabricated material assemblies in order to address novel applications of non-standard ceramic components towards the production of 3D textured prototypes and systems."

On view as part of the 9th ArchiLab, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
This project is funded jointly by Jenny Sabin Studio, the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and the PCCW Affinito-Stewart Grant at Cornell University.

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Architectural Designer and Artist: Jenny E. Sabin
Design and Production Team: Ngaire Stuart-Gongora, Jingyang Liu Leo, David Rosenwasser