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		<title>Home</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:27:46 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>Shaping Thermal Performance</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:31:13 +0000</pubDate>

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	Shaping Thermal Performance // Architectural Enclosures Graduate Course

Spring 2024
In the context of the climate crisis and rising temperatures,
building enclosures must respond to a plurality of requirements –including
thermal insulation, heat storage, ventilation, and solar radiation control --
ideally, with minimal embodied carbon and at low cost. While contemporary
normative approaches tackle this with assemblies of highly specialized layers,
alternative solutions emerge that use geometric specificity to integrate
multiple high-performance behaviors in a humble and simplified material
palette. 



This new workshop explored the use of earthen construction as a
low-carbon approach to a heat-resilient architecture that provides cooling
solutions in a climate-specific way. The initial exercise challenged students
to design a mug (a wall that separates two different environments) to be as
lightweight as possible while keeping water cold for as long as possible. The
final project consisted of designing an earthen-based wall system supported by
digital simulations and physical experiments while exploring its potential
impact on architectural expression through its application in a single-story
house.







Teaching Team: Eduardo 
















Gascón
Alvarez and&#38;nbsp;Caitlin Mueller with support from&#38;nbsp;
















Professor
Les Norford and PhD candidate Sandy Curth




Students:&#38;nbsp;
















Akshata
Atre, Rachel Blowes, Cheng-Hsin Chan, Aisha Cheema, Bryce Crawford, Natasha
Hirt, Sylvia Jimenez, Mara Jovanovic, Minyoung Kim, Thomas King, Dong Nyung
Lee, Yanyi Liu, Ashutosh Lohana, Patrick Margain, Ryan Otterson, Zhi Ray Wang



















Images 1 to 5: Fabrication, firing, and testing of the
3D-printed ceramic mugs. Students experimented with the massing, material
distribution, and air pocket location within their designs to achieve a minimal
weight (kg) and maximum time constant (h), a measure of the mugs' combined
insulation and heat storage properties. 



Images 6 to 10: Earth-based wall systems designed for optimal
passive cooling performance across three hot climates with varying conditions.
The explored fabrication systems ranged from compressed earth blocks to
prefabricated 3D-printed modules, multicellular fired clay blocks, on-site
printed earth, and wattle and daub.













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		<title>Additive Energy</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:44:18 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>ADDITIVE ENERGY
2023In this 
study, we ask if there are broadly scalable methods for additively 
manufacturing low-carbon, climate-specific architecture that are 
thermally and structurally performative for housing. We then demonstrate
 that high-performance, hierarchical building elements can be produced 
from extremely low-cost, low-carbon materials like earth using 
increasingly available 3D printing tools. We present a set of novel 
design methods and building systems from the scale of a brick to the 
scale of a wall, utilizing a combination of simulation-driven design and
 additive manufacturing with earth and clay. By leveraging materials 
readily available in all climates, bespoke, simulation-driven building 
elements could be manufactured from these low or no-cost materials to 
create performative, low-carbon buildings. By presenting a methodology 
for material and fabrication-aware energy simulation for additive 
manufacturing, this work provides scalable groundwork for future studies
 across climates and local building requirements.

Project team: Eduardo Gascon and Sandy Curth, Lawrence Sass, Leslie Norford, Caitlin Mueller




A free preprint of the research article can be found here.

Citation:&#38;nbsp;

  
    [1A. Curth, E. Gascón Alvarez, L. Sass, L. Norford, and C. Mueller, “Additive Energy: 3D Printing Thermally Performative Building Elements with Low Carbon Earthen Materials,” 2024, pp. 28–45. doi: 10.1201/9781003403890-2.
 
 



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		<title>Sueños Con</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Suenos-Con</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>

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	Mextropoli 
Sueños con Earth/Concrete



2022
Sueños con Earth/Concrete explores the future of affordable housing in Mexico by minimizing the material impact of existing construction methods. The horizontal roof structure takes the existing vigueta y bovedilla system as a starting point, optimizing the shape of the precast reinforced concrete beams to minimize the use of material and its associated environmental impact by 50% compared to conventional systems. This elegant geometry, sculpted by varying width and depth along the beam’s span, is enabled by recent computational design methods developed in MIT research. 3D-printed clay blocks vault between beams as lost formwork that enables the casting of a topping slab.The use of tepetate, a local soil with high contents of clay, allows for fabricating compressed, sun-dried blocks that constitute the pavilion walls. This affordable, low-carbon solution, which has been successfully applied in the construction of housing communities around Mexico for more than 30 years, is reinterpreted here with a post-tensioning system that allows for assembly and disassembly. Sueños con Earth/Concrete lies at the intersection of local construction techniques and new digital fabrication technologies, resulting in a collaboration between industry, social enterprise, and academia as a model toward a more sustainable built environment.

The geometric flexibility of 3D-printing facilitates the production of mass-customized ceramic block elements tailored to available materials and building design. Clay blocks are produced with local ceramic manufacturers using conventional clays and firing processes. The blocks themselves are lightweight and are optimized to minimize material usage and fabrication time.
Project team: Edu Gascón, Mohamed Ismail, Sandy Curth, Kiley Feickert, Caitlin Mueller, Leslie Norford.&#38;nbsp;
In Collaboration with: ECHALE, New Story, Manufactura, Anfora Studio, Formas de Fibra de Vidrio. 
Digital Structures MIT
News articles:ArchDaily Sueños con Earth/Concrete

DesignBoom&#38;nbsp;Sueños con Earth/Concrete
Open Access Publication here.

Citation:&#38;nbsp;

  
    [1]A. Curth et al., “Sueños Con Tierra/Concreto: Multi-Material Fabrication for Low-Carbon Construction – an Optimised Floor System for Affordable Housing in Mexico,” in Fabricate 2024, in Creating Resourceful Futures. , UCL Press, 2024, pp. 214–221. doi: 10.2307/jj.11374766.31.
 
 





  
    
  



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		<title>Earthworks // Tilt Up Frame</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Earthworks-Tilt-Up-Frame</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:56:16 +0000</pubDate>

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	Earthworks // Tilt-Up

2022

EarthWorks explores the potential for excavation waste or other soils sourced directly from the construction site to be 3D printed into large-scale cast-in-place, prefab, or tilt-up formwork for reinforced concrete.
 Applications include carbon saving shape optimized structural systems, thermal and acoustically performative surface conditions, and radical geometric design freedom.
Here, we designed a portal frame using a 2D multi-objective shape optimization
 to minimize concrete while meeting design and code structural 
requirements. The 2D shape optimization approach taken here, while 
accessible and easy to use, is a numerical method that does not 
accurately model concrete mechanics, instead treating the concrete as an
 elastic material. This is in contrast to Case Study 3, in which a 
3D-shape optimization model is used, taking into account the full 
mechanical behavior of reinforced concrete. The frame is fabricated on 
its side, a “tilt-up” casting strategy common in the site manufacturing 
of monolithic concrete walls for big-box stores and warehouses with 
sufficient staging areas.
 Here, the goal is to produce a materially efficient structural element,
 maximizing the working range of a single robot arm while keeping the 
fabrication time as low as possible. The formwork consists of a 
space-filling pattern on the ground plane, a printed extrusion of the 
frame’s 2D profile, and printed buttresses to manage the hydrostatic 
pressure of concrete during the casting process. The frame includes 
steel plates for bolted connections at its base and connection points 
for beams along its top. Once cured, the 3D-printed formwork is removed,
 and the frame is tilted into its upright position.
 Of the three methods tested, the tilt-up frame could be considered the 
most successful in that the ratio of material used in both the mold and 
the cast element is minimal, the rebar cage is conventional and 
straightforward to fabricate, and the final product is immediately ready
 for use as a structural component of a code compliant building. This is
 the fastest way to manufacture case studies while also being the 
largest single cast.



Project team:&#38;nbsp;Sandy Curth, Natalie Pearl, Emily Wissemann, Latifa Alkhayat, Tim Cousin, Vincent Jackow, Moh Ismail, Caitlin Mueller
Open Access Publication here.
Citation:&#38;nbsp;

  
    [1]A. Curth et al., “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction,” Construction and Building Materials, vol. 449, p. 138387, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.138387.
 
 






  
    
  





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		<title>Earthworks // Beam</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Earthworks-Beam</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:05:22 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Programmable Mud MIT</dc:creator>

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		<description>
	
	Earthworks // Pre-Fab Beam

2022


EarthWorks
 explores the potential for excavation waste or other soils sourced 
directly from the construction site to be 3D printed into large-scale 
cast-in-place, prefab, or tilt-up formwork for reinforced concrete.
 Applications include carbon saving shape optimized structural systems, 
thermal and acoustically performative surface conditions, and radical 
geometric design freedom. Here EarthWorks is used to generate zero waste molds for 3D shape optimized spanning elements like reinforced concrete beams.&#38;nbsp;



Project team: Sandy Curth, Oliver Moldow, Natalie Pearl, Emily Wissemann, Latifa Alkhayat, Tim Cousin, Vincent Jackow, Moh Ismail, Caitlin Mueller

Open Access Publication here.
Citation: 
A. Curth et al., “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction,” Construction and Building Materials, vol. 449, p. 138387, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.138387.




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		<title>Earthworks // Cast-in-Place</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Earthworks-Cast-in-Place</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:30:38 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Programmable Mud MIT</dc:creator>

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		<description>
	
	Earthworks // Cast in Place 3D printed wall2022
EarthWorks
 explores the potential for excavation waste or other soils sourced 
directly from the construction site to be 3D printed into large-scale 
cast-in-place, prefab, or tilt-up formwork for reinforced concrete.
 Applications include carbon saving shape optimized structural systems, 
thermal and acoustically performative surface conditions, and radical 
geometric design freedom. In this example, a print-in-place 3D printed earthen wall integrating cast-in-place footings, columns, and sills.
Project team: Sandy Curth, Natalie Pearl, Emily Wissemann, Latifa Alkhayat, Tim Cousin, Vincent Jackow, Moh Ismail, Caitlin Mueller 



Open Access Publication here.
Citation:&#38;nbsp;
A. Curth et al., “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction,” Construction and Building Materials, vol. 449, p. 138387, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.138387.&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Post Tensioned Wall</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Post-Tensioned-Wall</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Programmable Mud MIT</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Post-Tensioned-Wall</guid>

		<description>
	
	Post Tensioned Wall Earth Wall

2022
A modular wall system for pre-fab and on-site 3D printed earth construction. Wall sections were produced in an in-situ “conformal” configuration and as modules sandwiched between higher-strength materials to make transportation and lifting possible. The prototypes demonstrate the potential for multistory, hierarchical building design using local materials reconfigured into functional geometries.
In addition, conformal printing studies were carried out to manage the placement of prefabricated, post-tensioned modules on uneven foundation conditions. By rationalizing scan data with a module's base geometry, a nonplanar toolpath can be printed, which interpolates between the complex ground surface and the planar perimeter of the pre-fab module.&#38;nbsp;

Project team: Sandy Curth

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		<title>Biocement</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Biocement</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:21:30 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Programmable Mud MIT</dc:creator>

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	Biocement


2021
As climate change accelerates the mass migration of people to urban centers, new, and globally applicable low embodied carbon material innovations are urgently needed. Concrete makes up 80% of the average city and accounts for more than 8% of global CO2 emissions. In the last 30 years, advances have been made to reduce the energy use in the production of cement by incorporating waste products from other industrial processes. However, the scale of new construction over the next 50-100 years will require far greater innovation to meet demand without exacerbating climate change to an untenable degree. While there are many incremental solutions being proposed to address this problem, direct use of local mineral and microbiological resources is largely underexplored. Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) presents a possible path towards replacing cement for ground stabilization, foundations, and structural building elements. In this paper, we evaluate the ability of MICP to scale to global construction demands while satisfying the strengths and weathering requirements of different environments and building typologies. Based on the results of physical experiments, we present possible approaches for the incorporation of MICP in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry through a proposal of delivery methods for unsterilized and local environments, a life cycle assessment of the resources needed for the process, and an evaluation of compressive strengths. In doing so, we demonstrate the potential for MICP as a low embodied carbon tool that can extend the use of earthen structures in modern construction practice.
Project team:&#38;nbsp;Sandy Curth and Laura Gonzales


Advising: Caitlin Mueller, Justin Buck, Elsa Olivetti
Parts of this ongoing project were documented in Laura’s 

SMArchs



thesis.&#38;nbsp; 


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		<title>Parametric Waffle Slabs</title>
				
		<link>https://programmablemud.mit.edu/Parametric-Waffle-Slabs</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:24:33 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Programmable Mud MIT</dc:creator>

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	Parametric Waffle Slabs

2022
Many researchers have leveraged digital fabrication to reduce the climate impact of high embodied carbon material use. However, horizontal spanning structures (e.g. roofs and floors) remain challenging with respect to energy intensity and structural mass quantity, and existing low-mass construction systems, such as ribbed or waffle slabs, either require proprietary formwork or are particularly labor/cost intensive. Recent advances in mass customization through digital fabrication have enabled efficient, formwork free methods for concrete construction. This work presents a hybrid design methodology using FEA simulation and closed-form approaches that allow for the shape optimization of two-way ribbed spanning systems in response to spatially varied structural demands. We utilize a LSAM (Large Scale Additive Manufacturing) system paired with a nonplanar toolpath optimization workflow to 3D print lost concrete formwork for a cast-in-place, shape optimized waffle slab. The geometric freedom of additive manufacturing allows for the wide range of void sizes specified by the optimization to be printed without significant increase in labor and material costs. With the simulation approaches outlined here and tests printed with an industry partner (TAM) we show a flexible methodology for widely customizable cast-in-place waffle slabs. This novel construction automation approach is promising for a wide range of construction applications, broadening the scope of what can be printed on site.


Project team: Ashley Hartwell and&#38;nbsp;Sandy Curth, Tim Brodesser, Caitlin Mueller
Open Access Publication here.&#38;nbsp;
Citation:&#38;nbsp;

  
    [1Alexander Curth, Ashley Hartwell, Tim Brodesser, and Caitlin T. Mueller, “‪Parametric waffle slabs: Optimal geometry materialized with additive construction‬,” in International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 2022, Beijing, Aug. 2022, pp. 3183–3193.&#38;nbsp; 
  
  




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