ABSTRACT
Various methods of large scale additive manufacturing (AM) are finding growing application within architectural practice and on-site construction. This creates a large interest in the adaptive reinvestigation and reclamation of both traditional and novel materials within an architectural application. The plastic nature and controllable rheology of wetstate clay makes it an ideal material for this type of AM. PolyBrick 2.0 emphasizes the potential to rethink additively manufactured structural modules with customized clay recipes. In this paper, we present a comprehensive workflow for the bio-inspired algorzithmic generation of load responsive lattices, realized by materially informed custom AM methodologies and toolpathing strategies. As a result of the presented workflows, a load responsive and material efficient brick module (PolyBrick 2.0) is developed and novel fabrication tools and pipelines are established for higher print success and fidelity.
