PINCH WALL is a porous cast component wall designed and fabricated by a team of undergraduate architecture students enrolled in Jeremy Ficca’s course, Digital Tectonics: Robotic Fabrication. The system serves as a prototype of a load-bearing, variably porous wall. A hexagonal grid pattern efficiently nests components, while allowing for a variation in hexagonal cell size and proportion in relationship to wall porosity.

Students utilized parametric modeling and robotic fabrication in the production of two-part molds for subsequent casting. Each of the 145 unique casts nest tightly against their neighbors and rely upon system of ‘surface valleys’ that ensure proper alignment of units.

TEAM:

Nelly Dacic

Jared Friedman

Puja Patel

Craig Rosman

Arthur Azoulai

Christopher Gallot

Spencer Gregson

Matthew Huber

Jaclyn Paceley

Giacomo Tinari

Eddie Wong

FACULTY:

Jeremy Ficca