topoForm#2: Generative Topological Design for Additive Manufacturing

MULTI-AGENT TOPOLOGICAL FORMATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Buildings are responsible for 40% of world C02 emissions and 40% of the world's raw material consumption. Designing buildings with a reduced material volume is essential to securing a post-carbon built environment and supports a more affordable, accessible architecture. Architecture’s material efficiency is correlated to structural efficiency however, buildings are seldom optimal structures. Flexible design methods are required that can adapt to diverse constraints and generate filagree material arrangements, currently infeasible to explicitly model. A novel approach to generative topological design is proposed employing a custom multi-agent method that is adaptive to diverse structural conditions. This research develops multi-manifold topological design solutions tailored to additive manufactured production, where additional geometric complexity is leveraged to minimise material volume, while addressing architectural expression.

Lead Researcher: Robert Stuart-Smith
Researchers: Patrick Danahy, David Forero