BRIEF

The project aimed to fabricate a prototype of the “The Bad Cafe by Nudes” facade system and explore the capabilities of manufacturing processes through the CNC machine. The project was fabricated in one week as part of the Digital Fabrication seminar at IAAC, Barcelona, 2020.

REFERENCE

The Bad Cafe by Nudes is a yoga, gastronomical experiences, and cultural event space for music, art, performances, intellectual discourse, and fashion in Mumbai, India. Remotely located from traffic snarls and insulated from typically high levels of air and sound pollution, the project is sheathed in tranquility and peace. The dynamic “skin”, all of 25,992 black cylindrical conduits grafted into CNC’d aluminum composite box panels with acupuncture-like precision shares a peaceful co-existence with its neighbors, its presence gradually unveiled as one meanders through the narrow by-lanes of the historical urban fabric. The porous, perforated nature of the skin allows the project to breathe and ventilate thereby reinforcing the relationship between the inside and outside, between body and soul.

Image Copyright Sameer Chawda

The Bad Cafe // Nudes, Mumbai, India

Render

The Bad Cafe by Nudes || Render

CNC Milling Strategy

Horizontal Roughing
  • Flat Mill
  • Flute: 2
  • Diameter: 10
  • Spindle Speed: 12000
  • Cut Direction: Downcut
  • Stepdown Control (dZ): 75%
  • Stepover Distance: 70%
  • Total mill time: 40 minutes
Axis Profiling
  • Flat  Mill
  • Diameter: 6
  • Spindle Speed: 12000
  • Cut Direction: Downcut
  • Cut Depth  Control: 15
  • Total mill time: 30 minutes
Parallel Finishing
  • Flat Mill
  • Diameter: 6
  • Spindle Speed: 12000
  • Cut Direction: Downcut
  • Stepover Control: 50
  • Total mill time: 20 minutes

Fabrication Simulation

Horizontal Roughing Simulation On Rhino Cam

Axis Profiling Simulation On Rhino Cam

Axis Profiling Simulation On Rhino Cam

Parallel Finishing Simulation On Rhino Cam

The Final Model

Close Up Image Of Final Model To Illustrate The Different Heights Of The Tubes

Final Model

REFERENCE

  • https://www.archdaily.com/796873/the-bad-cafe-nudes

  • http://www.thebadcafe.com/

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Parametric Skins // The Bad Cafe by Nudes in CNC is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the Master of Advanced Architecture 2020/21 by Students:  Nan Yin, Jose Levy Rodriguez, and Aqeel Sourjah and Faculty: Ricardo Mayor Luque, Lana Awad, and Shyam Zonca