Song, Yang
(2024)
AR (design+fabrication): AR-assisted Design and Robotic Fabrication Framework for Parametric Masonry Structures.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
Digital technologies enable the digital continuum from design to production, yet there are still certain practical limitations. Under the trends of architectural digitalisation and the rapid development of immersive media device technology, augmented reality (AR) and its unique characteristics are expected to have the ability to integrate with parametric thinking to optimise conventional digital design and fabrication processes. After combining the possibility of the above-emerging fields and analysing the corresponding research values, I proposed my practice-based research aim to explore AR technology for investigating and formulating a framework of digital architectural design and robotic fabrication in an immersive and interactive manner. This comprehensive framework encompasses various crucial aspects, including parametric design, design feedback, robotic fabrication, and human-robot collaboration, in the AR environment to provide optimised solutions for today's design and construction methods, closely following the trends of the times and current technological developments. This study adopted an experimental research strategy and validated the proposed framework with parametric masonry structure experiments from design to fabrication phases. Not only did I validate this framework with masonry structures, but also my framework has the potential to be developed and promoted in-depth for other architectural materialities and proposals, which bridges the practical constraints between conventional design and construction in a novel way. My research is significant as it contributes to knowledge in AR, parametric design, robotic fabrication, and their combinations in architectural aspects. The research findings illustrate how AR technology can be employed to build up a design-to-fabrication framework to enrich the current methods following the trends of digitalisation in architecture. These achieved findings are rooted in both theoretical underpinnings and practical experimentation, thus enhancing the understanding of AR-assisted design and robotic fabrication knowledge, and helping architectural practitioners in the practice of the AR-assisted design-to-fabrication framework. At the same time, my findings from the literature review and the practice-based experiments analysed the merits and limitations of this research and made a summary of the applicable to users with different scenarios. The unique contribution of my research not only lies in investigating and verifying the AR-assisted design-to-fabrication framework, but also in providing a list of recommendations and future direction suggestions for other people to take forward in the future, as well as the speculation of future horizons in architectural digitalisation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2024 15:39 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2025 19:39 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03182607 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3182607 |
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