The Street Ratchada
Architectkidd
Bangkok, Thailand
Located at a Shopping Centre in Thailand, the Street Ratchada building façade was designed to interact between the open plaza and the interior retail spaces. With a gradient of triangulated panels, the façade offers a light tease of what’s inside the building creating an inviting glow.
Fabrication Strategy
Production Calculations
Part 1: Oak Wood
CNC Milling Strategies
Material: Oak Hardwood
Machine: ShopBot_MTC
Post Processor: .sbp
Workpiece volume: 360x270x30
Engraving Screw Hole Horizontal Roughing
Flat Mill Flat Mill
Diameter: 10 mm Horizontal Roughing
Spindle Speed: 10 000 rpm Spindle Speed: 12 000 rpm
Cut Direction: Upcut Cut Direction: Upcut
Total Mill Time: 5.10 minutes Stepdown Control (dZ): 40%
. Stepover Distance: 50%
. Total Mill Time: 42.40 minutes
Parallel Finishing Profiling
Ball Mill Flat Mill
Diameter: 6 mm Diameter: 8mm
Spindle Speed: 10 000 rpm Spindle Speed: 10 000rpm
Cut Direction: Upcut Cut Direction
Stepover Control: 15% Bridges: 4
Total Mill Time: 41.20minutes Total Mill Time: 1.40 minutes
Part 2: Plywood
CNC Milling Strategies
Material: Plywood
Machine: ShopBot_MTC
Post Processor: .sbp
Workpiece volume: 370x370x22
The Digital Fabrication of Papermetric Skin: The Street Ratchada is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the
Master in Advanced Architecture in 2020/2021 by
Student: Pamela Igwehi Inegbedion, Ashwin, Alexander
Faculty: Ricardo Mayor, Lana Awad, Shyam Zonca