Autonomous assembly : designing for a new era of collective construction / guest-edited by Skylar Tibbits.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tibbits, Skylar

Series:

Architectural design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and technology.

Architectural design--Computer-aided design.

Architectural design -- Computer-aided design.

Architecture--Design and construction.

Architecture -- Design and construction.

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture -- Designs and plans.

Autonomous robots.

Assembling machines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Wiley 2018

System Details:

text file

Summary:

We are now on the brink of a new era in construction – that of autonomous assembly. For some time, the widespread adoption of robotic and digital fabrication technologies has made it possible for architects and academic researchers to design non-standard, highly customised structures. These technologies have largely been limited by scalability, focusing mainly on top-down, bespoke fabrication projects, such as experimental pavilions and structures. Autonomous assembly and bottom-up construction techniques hold the promise of greater scalability, adaptability and potentially evolved design possibilities. By capitalising on the advances made in swarm robotics, the collective construction of the animal/insect kingdom, and advances in physical computational, programmable materials or self-assembly, architects and designers are now able to build from the bottom up. This issue presents future scenarios of autonomous assembly by highlighting the viability of decentralised, collective assembly systems, demonstrating the potential to deliver reconfigurable and adaptive solutions. Contributors include: Marcelo Coelho, Andong Liu, Robin Meier, Kieran Murphy and Heinrich Jaeger, Radhika Nagpal and Kirstin Petersen, and Zorana Zeravcic. Featured architects: Aranda\Lasch, Arup, Philippe Block, Gramazio Kohler Architects, Ibañez Kim, Achim Menges, Caitlin Mueller, Jose Sanchez, Athina Papadopoulou and Jared Laucks, and Skylar Tibbits.

Contents:

About the Guest-Editor Introduction: From Automated to Autonomous Assembly Combinatorial Commons: Social Remixing in a Sharing Economy How Specific Interactions Drive the Complex Organisation of Building Blocks From Self-Assembly to Evolutionary Structures The Vanishing Actor: How to Let Things Happen: The Art of Order Without Orders Complex Design by Simple Robots: A Collective Embodied Intelligence Approach to Construction Crowd-Driven Pattern Formation: Computational Strategies for Large-Scale Design and Assembly The Immersive: Stagecraft to Urbanism Baskets and Architecture: Ritualisitic Making and Collective Design Aleatory Construction Based on Jamming: Stability Through Self-Confinement Granular Jamming of Loadbearing and Reversible Structures: Rock Print and Rock Wall Granular Construction: Designed Particles for Macro-Scale Architectural Structures Distributed Structures: Digital Tools for Collective Design Compressive Assemblies: Bottom-Up Performance for a New Form of Construction Disarmed Strategies: New Machines and Techniques for an Era of Computational Contextualism in Architecture 2060: An Autonomously Crafted Built Environment Counterpoint: Autonomous Assembly as the Fourth Approach to Generic Construction Contributors ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: AUTONOMOUS ASSEMBLY What is Architectural Design? ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES EULA

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

1-119-10236-7

9781119102366

OCLC:

1023028425