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Robotic Ecotectonics

Robotic Ecotectonics Description Climate change is challenging humanity. There is an increasing need to develop sustainable building systems for zero or negative carbon emissions. Innovation in ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction techniques could...

Additive Tectonics

Additive Tectonics “When a structural concept has found its implementation through construction, the visual result will affect us through certain expressive qualities which clearly have something to do with the play of forces and corresponding arrangement of parts in...

Design Computation 1

Design Computation 1 Description Computation has a profound impact on a contemporary understanding of architectural form, space, and structure. It shifts the way one perceives form, the way in which form is purposed, and the way in which form is produced. The course...

Robotic Additive Manufacturing

Introduction to Robotic Additive Manufacturing “The manifest form—that which appears—is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate in other adjacent forms (ecology).” — Who is...

Wood Proto-architecture III

Wood Proto-architecture III: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — Gilles Deleuze and...
Wood Proto-architecture II

Wood Proto-architecture II

ARCH 4010-11 / ALAR 8010: Research Studio
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.

Wood Proto-architecture II: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — A Thousand...

Computational Design and Construction

Computational Design and Construction

ARCH 5500-003: Special Topics in Architecture
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.

Introduction to Computational Design and Construction “The manifest form—that which appears—is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate in other adjacent forms (ecology). The...

Wood Proto-architecture I

Wood Proto-architecture I

ARCH 4010-11 / ALAR 8010: Research Studio
Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing. and Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor Achim Menges

Wood Proto-architecture I: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — A Thousand Plateaus,...

Tangible Formations

Tangible Formations

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2017
Students: Kyriaki Goti and Shir Katz

Tangible Formations: Intuitive Design and Fabrication Process Through Real-Time Human-Computer Interaction Description This thesis examines the potential of using tangible interfaces and sensor feedback to develop an intuitive design and construction process utilizing...

Fluid Formations

Fluid Formations

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2017
Students: Pedro Giachini and Sachin Gupta

Fluid Formations: Design and Fabrication of Soft Matter Structures with Functional Stiffness Gradients Description Functionally graded objects take advantage of heterogeneous material properties to fulfill different design requirements as a single entity. A...

Tailored Structures

Tailored Structures

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2016
Students: Martin Alvarez and Eric Martínez

Tailored Structures: Adaptive Robotic Fabrication of Sewn Veneer Composites Description Tailored Structures investigates the use of robotics and sensing mechanisms in combination with industrial sewing techniques to explore a new way of fabricating wood shells. The...

Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures

Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2015
Student: Maria Yablonina

Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures Project Video https://vimeo.com/152438993 © Maria Yablonina, ICD/ITKE, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2015. Project Development © M. Yablonina, 2015.A Schematic Diagram of Integrated Design System. The...

Assembly Agency

Assembly Agency

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2015
Student: Julian Höll

Assembly Agency: Adaptive Robotic Fabrication and Assembly of Segmented Timber Plate Structures Project Video https://vimeo.com/147307982 © Julian Höll, ICD/ITKE, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2015. Project Development © J. Höll, 2015.© J. Höll, 2015.© J. Höll,...