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Disarmed Strategies: New Machines and Techniques for an Era of Computational Contextualism in Architecture
Author(s) -
Mayer Hannes,
Gramazio Fabio,
Kohler Matthias
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2203
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , contextualism , interlacing , architecture , computer science , process (computing) , engineering , artificial intelligence , art , history , visual arts , programming language , archaeology , interpretation (philosophy)
Digital fabrication to date has typically been blind to context. But this need not be the case – as demonstrated by the experiments of Gramazio Kohler Research , based at ETH Zurich. They have developed systems that employ robotic arms and flying machines with feedback control to adapt the fabrication process as it progresses. From the ballistic projection of clay in a cutting‐edge version of adobe, to the interlacing of string to form suspended structures in space, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Hannes Mayer outline some of their inventions here.