![]() ![]() Lo-Fab is the “slow food movement” of fabrication and represents MASS Design’s commitment to understanding the people, processes and products that go into fabricated building components. Q: Why did you choose to participate in the Biennial challenge?Ī: This project is a test-bed for MASS Design’s “Lo-Fab” (locally fabricated) approach to the design and building process. We caught up with Nathan King, who represents both MASS and the Virginia Tech teams to learn more about the project and how Autodesk helped contribute to its success. Photo credit: Cole Smith, Fusion 360 student expert MASS Design and students from Virginia Tech’s Center for Design Research used Fusion 360 to not only collaboratively design tooling for the structure, but to simulate and animate how it should be assembled for volunteers on the ground. They recruited students, engineers and community organizations to help design and build what became the “Lo-Fab” (locally fabricated) Pavilion, a grid-shell structure that, unlike conventional installations, could be disassembled and rebuilt for enduring use. When the time came for MASS Design Group, an award-winning architecture firm, to propose their first project in the US, a pavilion for Boston’s Design Biennial, they knew they wanted to stay local.
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