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Thallus Pavilion

Non-Planar Robotic Clay Fabrication
Thallus Pavilion Hero

Inspired by ZHA's Thallus pavilion, we developed a custom script with assistance from our professor, Austin Samson, to generate non-planar thallus patterns across a pavilion created in Maya. Using Kangaroo, I applied multiple curves to each Maya panel and simulated them simultaneously to make them weave together.

Project Image

WE then created test surfaces and CNC-milled them from foam. After, we sliced a new curve on these surfaces using a KUKA 6-Axis robot. Using a clay extruder, we then printed our pattern onto these non-planar surfaces to replicate the contours of the large-scale pavilion.

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Above: CNC Base and Prints.

During the semester, we developed a final pavilion in Maya, multiple test prints for each of our surfaces, and renderings in Lumion. However, our class was ongoing during the launch of Midjourney, so we created numerous AI-generated renderings to test the limits and possibilities of AI image generation at the time, in March 2023.

Final Image