Toto Tan
Toto is deeply passionate about the intersection of robotics, manufacturing, and architecture. With advanced degrees in both design and robotics, they are committed to pioneering innovative and sustainable solutions that enhance the built environment and mobility sectors.
Aero-Plastica explores an integrated approach to pneumatic thermoforming between two layers of robotically seamed PETG sheets, offering a variable manufacturing method with the potential to support custom, repeatable, and controlled fabrication of thermoplastic sheets. A multi-part fabricated prototype explores the potential for this method to be utilized for the production of lightweight, semi-rigid volumetric building envelope applications. A speculative architectural design of a micro-factory envelope is also developed to explore the potential for the method to produce an envelope of variably formed panels.
Aero-Plastica explores an integrated approach to pneumatic thermoforming between two layers of robotically seamed PETG sheets, offering a variable manufacturing method with the potential to support custom, repeatable, and controlled fabrication of thermoplastic sheets. A multi-part fabricated prototype explores the potential for this method to be utilized for the production of lightweight, semi-rigid volumetric building envelope applications. A speculative architectural design of a micro-factory envelope is also developed to explore the potential for the method to produce an envelope of variably formed panels.
