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cnc formwork?

ClemsonDnB

Does anyone know if there is such a thing as CNC formwork, as in the formwork is reconfigurable (i.e. a system of pins or something that move to create one form and then can be moved to form another)? I think i remember reading about this somewhere but I can't find where.

 
Mar 9, 07 2:42 pm
mdler

william massie

cant seem to find his website, though

Mar 9, 07 4:47 pm  · 
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binary

bill massie...head of arch at cranbrook

Mar 9, 07 5:33 pm  · 
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mdler

he must have closed up shop when he moved to Cranbrook

Mar 9, 07 7:23 pm  · 
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bothands

why do you say that? -- saw him lecture a few months ago, and he talked about his practice plans in Michigan...

Mar 9, 07 8:34 pm  · 
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FOG Lite

I was just trying to look at his website yesterday and my old bookmark no longer works. There were some images of his stuff on flicker, none of the formwork stuff though.

Mar 9, 07 11:03 pm  · 
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Doug Johnston

not sure why massie's website isn't working. He is in a new studio near cranbrook and working on several projects.
he designed posable formwork but never built it. He makes all his his formwork with cnc process, mostly lasercut cardboard smoothed with clay, then a rubber or silicon cast made off of that, which is used for concrete forming. Sometimes he will have styrofoam cnc-hot-wire cut and pour directly into that, sometimes he will cnc router styrofoam as forms and pour into those.

PlyArchitecture in Ann Arbor has done some movable formwork systems on small scale. http://www.plyarch.com/

A few people in the cranbrook architecture department are currently working on some systems which are reconfigurable or re-arrangable but not exactly modular. not sure if anything is up on the blogs yet, everything is pretty busy these days.

Mar 11, 07 8:56 pm  · 
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