Gramazio / Kohler Made by Robots

Challenging Architecture at a Larger Scale
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-91895-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Architectural Design

In the next decade or so, the widespread adoption of robotics isset to transform the construction industry: building techniqueswill become increasingly automated both on- and off-site,dispensing with manual labour and enabling greater cost andoperational efficiencies. What unique opportunities, however, doesrobotics afford beyond operational effectiveness explicitly for thepractice of architecture? What is the potential for the serialproduction of non-standard elements as well as for variedconstruction processes? In order to scale up and advance theapplication of robotics, for both prefabrication and on-siteconstruction, there needs to be an understanding of the differentcapabilities, and these should be considered right from the startof the design and planning process. This issue of ADshowcases the findings of the Architecture and Digital Fabricationresearch module at the ETH Zurich Future Cities Laboratory inSingapore, directed by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, whichexplores the possibilities of robotic construction processes forarchitecture and their large-scale application to the design andconstruction of high-rise buildings. Together with othercontributors, such as Philippe Morel, Neri Oxman, FrançoisRoche and Antoine Picon, they also look at the far-reachingtransformations starting to occur within automated fabrication: interms of liberation of labour, entrepreneurship, the changing shapeof building sites, in-situ fabrication and, most significantly,design.

Contributors: Thomas Bock, Jelle Feringa, Philippe Morel, NeriOxman, Antoine Picon and François Roche.

ETH Zurich contributors: Michael Budig, Norman Hack, Willi Lauerand Jason Lim and Raffael Petrovic (Future Cities Laboratory),Volker Helm, Silke Langenberg and Jan Willmann.

Featured entrepreneurs: Greyshed, Machineous, Odico FormworkRobotics, RoboFold and ROB Technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gramazio, Fabio

Kohler, Matthias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

5 EDITORIAL
Helen Castle
6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS
Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler
8 SPOTLIGHT
Visual highlights of the issue
14 INTRODUCTION
Authoring Robotic Processes
Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Jan Willmann
22 Integrating Robotic Fabrication in the Design Process
Michael Budig, Jason Lim and Raffael Petrovic
44 Mesh-Mould: Robotically Fabricated Spatial Meshes asReinforced Concrete Formwork
Norman Hack and Willi Viktor Lauer
54 Robots and Architecture: Experiments, Fiction,Epistemology
Antoine Picon
60 Entrepreneurship in Architectural Robotics: The Simultaneityof Craft, Economics and Design
Jelle Feringa
66 Odico Formwork Robotics
Asbjørn Søndergaard
68 RoboFold and Robots.IO
Gregory Epps
70 Machineous
Andreas Froech
72 ROB Technologies
Tobias Bonwetsch and Ralph Bärtschi
74 GREYSHED
Ryan Luke Johns
76 Computation or Revolution
Philippe Morel
88 Changing Building Sites: Industrialisation and Automation ofthe Building Process
Thomas Bock and Silke Langenberg
100 In-Situ Fabrication: Mobile Robotic Units on ConstructionSites
Volker Helm
108 Towards Robotic Swarm Printing
Neri Oxman, Jorge Duro-Royo, Steven Keating, Ben Peters,Elizabeth Tsai
116 Machines for Rent: Experiments by New-Territories
François Roche and Camille Lacadée
126 COUNTERPOINT
Crisis! What Crisis? Retooling for Mass Markets in the 21stCentury
Tom Verebes
134 CONTRIBUTORS