Extrusion | Additive Manufacturing
In conjunction with Strata - The Mars Habitat, the team worked with KUKA Robots to experiment with additive manufacturing. Strata proposes the additive manufacturing fabrication method of material extrusion. The design is centered on layering at its various levels - from space distribution and shell structures to the fabrication via layered extrusion of silica and regolith, locally available on Mars. As part of the project proposal, a mock up was fabricated in order to defend the proposed fabrication strategy. Using clay extruded through a syringe cartridge hooked up to an air pump and KUKA robot, we fabricated a column which mimicked the formal language of Strata’s Mars habitat. (We began by fabricating a plastic extrusion tool in order to visually depict the material quality of silica and regolith in terms of transparency, but due to time constraints, the project was completed using clay extrusion.) This Project was done in collaboration with Sana Nasikwala and Arta Ghoorchian
