Fox Friday: 3D Printing a Vase with Clay
The 3d printer is widely known for its ability to produce models with endless variation and customization, and its output is typically characterized as precise, fixed, and immaterial. However, when combined with clay, a soft, visceral material that slumps and oozes when extruded and layered, the 3d printer’s tectonic language becomes highly idiosyncratic.This workshop will introduce the use of the Potterbot Ceramic 3d Printer. Students will learn how to create a vase using Grasshopper and Rhino, generate the g-code using Cura, and print on the Potterbot. Vases produced by students during the course will be fired and ready for pick up later in the semester. Please come to the workshop with a demo versions of Rhino 7 and Cura installed on your computer.
Takeaway: Students will produce one vase 3D printed in clay.
Instructor: Macy Morley is a M. Architecture /M. Construction Management candidate in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design. She is currently in her last semester at Wash U in the Degree Project Studio. In spring 2023, Macy took the graduate options studio, Earthen Practices, which focused on the use of ceramic 3D printing for earthen architecture in Marfa, Texas.
about fox fridays
Fox Fridays is a weekly, low-stress workshop series introducing the WashU community to overlooked or lesser-known tools, resources, processes, and ideas. It provides a platform for students to develop hybridized practices of creative output that transcend discipline, medium, and experience.