Super Prosthetic for Horse - Design Study with Robot Arm 2018 -

Additional Credits: HsengTai JaReng Lintner / Rachel Chen / Feryal Farahzad / Marcos Dana / Runze Zhang

Superprosthetics is a seminar that involves designing and prototyping of performance enhancing prosthetic limbs. It focuses on full scale prototyping in the Robot house, utilizing the robotic arm and our plastic extruder. Architectural practice has been ever expanding into a variety of different fields; Architectural graduates today are no longer are tied to a single career path of working in an architecture office or opening an architectural practice but are increasingly involved into all aspects of design including graphic design, product design, the movie industry, and advanced digital manufacturing, etc. This seminar is expanding the architectural playground even further and focuses specifically on product design with a strong SCI-FI narrative by designing performance-enhanced prosthetics or Superprosthetics. Think superheroes, Cyborgs and bionic implants. Students will work on developing different technics working with a high speed, high strength plastic extruder and a robot arm to produce full scale prototypes of their Superprosthetic designs.