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| MAS ETH ARCH/CAAD - 2004/05 - STUDENT PAGES Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture, Specialization in Computer Aided Architectural Design | 065-0005/6 Supervision: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, Philipp Schaerer Chair of CAAD, ETH Zurich  Milling Module | Assignment 2 | Proposal'Frozen Subtraction'As the mill is a subtractive working tool, the goal is to show this process of reduction.To emphasize the process (not the resulting product) the first idea was to create a choreography for the mill and a block of wood. The mill moves within predefined patterns, following a rhythm, while creating tensional surfaces and destroying them immediately again. At the end the complete block is milled away.     The next idea was to 'freeze' the different states of the process, by slumping an acrylic glass or plastic onto the milled block. A series of 'frozen' forms is created by repeating this procedure.  The slumped forms are reorganized to create facade elements.  This use of the mill optimizes its wasteful process by using one single block of material to create many diffent surfaces. the designthe design will be programmend using Mel.I.e. user defined forces pulling and pushing a given surface. The surface reacts differently: waving, folding The result will be an animated process. the objectScaled model of the façade:1. milling the block 2. slumping a (plastic) material onto the block to freeze it 3. fixing the frozen material to the block to cut it into exact form 4. cutting a surface structure into the plastic restart with 1. the evaluationThe continuity and process of the transformation from the generic codeover the subtractive milling process to the final object will be the evaluative base. As the final product will probably be a working model, the evaluation emphasis won’t be its surface or material quality. -- NDSSebastianGmelin - 19 Jan 2005
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