FlexiMold: Teaching Numeric Control through a Hybrid Device

Abstract

This proceeding presents the process and outputs of a collaborative workshop which was held between Yasar University in Turkey and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The aim of the workshop was to observe the educational potentials of a custom-made formwork device towards teaching CAD/CAM to architecture students. This flexible formwork which we call FlexiMold is a hybrid device that is used manually by following computerized numeric information. The students designed an architectural object which has a complex shape and used this formwork to fabricate it in actual scale. We present the workshop objectives process and outcomes in this proceeding.