Futur evolution of the digital fabrication laboratories. Practical application to Neàpolis

Abstract

Treball desenvolupat en el marc del programa "European Project Semester".

The paper reviews the study of the state of the art of Fabrication Laboratories in order to implement them on Neàpolis buildings. The Neàpolis Fabrication Laboratories Project is conducted by a team of 4 international students participating in the European Project Semester 2019 in cooperation with Neàpolis agency. There is a lack of existing platform that encourages the maker culture, innovative ideas and creative thinking skills in Vilanova I La Geltrù. Therefore, Neàpolis proposed a project to develop Fabrication Laboratories into their buildings to provide the mentioned platform. This concept is going to be implemented in the Neàpolis main building, the La Nau building from Neàpolis district and the sea container building. First of all, a researched on the general information about Fabrication Laboratories, the differences between Maker Space and the existing Fabrication Laboratories were carried out. Next, several proposals for the designs and implementation of the Fabrication Laboratories were done for each of the three buildings. Subsequently, a single final proposal was chosen for each building and a list of machines and equipment was put together for the Fabrication Laboratories. Afterwards, the constructions and installation processes needed was carefully analyzed. Over the whole planning period, the overall cost estimations of Fabrication Laboratories in each building was calculated to give an idea of the project budget. This project shows that the Fabrication Laboratories concept is applicable for Neàpolis and hence, will provide a suitable platform for development of innovative ideas. Besides that, different designs of Fabrication Laboratories in different places around the world would still serve the same purposes and functionalities. The hybridization concept could also be achieved along with this existing platform. Moreover, the said platform would make Vilanova I La Geltrú be a part of the knowledge-sharing community across the world. Therefore, it is hoped that this project will be physically carried out by Neàpolis in the future as there is a lot of positive outcomes of this project.

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