|Medellín, Colombia|
FABLAND – Itinerant Laboratory of Innovation - aims to provide access to technological tools for communities outside the University and thereby promote the development of social innovation processes. It is conceived as a Manufacturing Laboratory (FAB), which reaches (LAND) out to local communities offering digital manufacturing methodologies and machinery to help them build an ethos of change in cultural dynamics to generate alternatives in ways to ask, learn and solve their own problems. The technological challenge in this project was to create a workspace for 12 people using the teaching/learning of digital manufacturing techniques that could be assembled in a short time with a minimum tools and training. The entire surrounding skin of the workspace was created using 8cm-wide plywood slabs tensed in bolted joints to create surface stresses that increase rigidity, thereby generating 9 arches, 70cm wide and 5m in diameter, which together laterally cover an approximate area of ​​35m2. The furniture consists of chairs, study tables, machine support tables and workshop tables designed specifically for the workspace, with the condition that it be built in plywood and disassembled to be packaged and transported. The workshop tables and machine support tables were designed to store all the pieces of the workspace and equipment inside, thus facilitating the storage and transport of the project. The project was developed by a group of 7 people over 90 days, of which 30 days were used to generate the final model and cut and assemble the workspace. This project was financed by the Faculty of Architecture at the National University and Cotrafa Social, which is a non-profit cooperative organization.