Design and Development of Large-scale Products by Additive Manufacturing Technology

Abstract

The constant increase in urban areas has distanced people from nature and this shows major health implications. Green areas within urban spaces provide spaces for leisure and recreation, which leads to social improvements. This research seeks to create products that improves social interaction within urban green spaces focusing on leisure. To produce a product to be installed in an urban space, large-scale robotic extrusion-based additive manufacturing equipment was used. As well as being more sustainable than conventional production methods, this process is an innovative form of production that allows the creation of large unique parts in a shorter time. Therefore, this research presents the operation and the programming necessary to achieve this type of product resorting, mainly to parametric design models and the procedure implemented to communicate these designs to the robotic extrusion-based equipment.

Presenters

Alvaro Sampaio
Associate Professor, Architectura, Art and Design, University of Minho, Portugal

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2025 Special Focus—Thinking, Learning, Doing: Plural Ways of Design

KEYWORDS

Product Design, Additive Manufacturing, Robotic Fabrication, Urban Spaces, Parametric Design