NOPA
Size
3m x 3m x 3m
Location
Santralistanbul, Bilgi University, Istanbul
Date
August 2017
Collaboration
NOPA - Non Orthogonal Planar Assemblies - International Summer School was organized by Istanbul Bilgi University and was supported by ETH Zurich and NCCR Digital Fabrication from Switzerland. Program coordinators from Istanbul Bilgi University were Prof. Dr. Şebnem Yalınay Çinici and Dr. Evren Aysev Deneç. The tutors from Istanbul Bilgi University were Cemal Koray Bingöl, Gamze Gündüz and Leyla İlman including the collaborators, Oğul Öztunç and Hülya Oral. The tutors and lecturers from ETH Zurich and NCCR Digital Fabrication were Selen Ercan, David Jenny, Orkun Kasap and Luka Piskorec including the guest crits and lecturers Hannes Mayer from ETH Zurich and Dr. Ralph Bärtschi from ROB Technologies AG. The students of the International Summer School were Aylin Güler, Foad Sarsangi, Nilay Öztürk, Meryem N. Yabanigül, Mevan Bacgeroğlu, Emre Taş, Berk Ekmen, Bilge Kardelen Bekiroğlu, Derya Çiftnamlı, Parhes Deni Çakıridis, Deniz Hüray Tuğcu, Ecem Kırtaş, Saadet Yüncü, Semen Tanrıverdi, İlayda Turan, Hüsnü Yücel and İsmail Kocataş.
The robotic arm used was a Kuka KR 20-3 with a payload of 20kg and an arm reach of over 1.6 meters. After an introduction to the workshop topic and setup, students were asked to start developing design alternatives. Throughout their design explorations, students were working with physical models using rectangular wooden sticks in scale 1:10, then proceeding to full-scale mock-ups testing different joining configurations (Figure 3). These explorations were used as a starting point for testing the structural properties and fabrication simulations of the full-scale final design.