THE UNIVERSITY of Westminster says its new fabrication laboratory on its Marylebone campus in London puts it at the ‘cutting edge’ of digital fabrication.
New Westminster lab includes robotic facilities
Providing a major extension of its architecture workshops, Fabrication Laboratory Westminster includes two new purpose-built spaces offering advanced digital manufacturing facilities.
The laboratory will be used to teach students about digital fabrication, will offer specialist training short courses, and provide support for research and PhD students.
The facilities complement a suite of 3D printers and laser cutters in the university’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, enabling a range of design and fabrication processes including ABS and plaster 3D printing, CNC knife cutting, large scale CNC routing, CNC metal milling and robot fabrication.
Dr David Scott, senior lecturer and academic leader for the Fabrication Laboratory Westminster, said: “The new lab will allow students to immerse themselves in and explore the exciting and rapidly expanding field of digital fabrication.
“It gives them a fantastic opportunity to produce work of the highest quality, offering new design possibilities and creative outcomes”.