Processes for an Architecture of Volume

Una revisión de plataformas robóticas para el sector de la construcción

“…Es posible lograr curvaturas complejas a través de una producción manual o de un fresado en CNC a gran escala, pero ninguno de estos dos métodos es económico. Ahora bien, robotic hotwire cutting (RHWC) rompe con esta tendencia (McGee, Feringa y Sondergaard, 2013). Teniendo en cuenta el método RHWC, Sondergaard propone la utilización de una cuchilla en caliente (hotblade) para realizar cortes en distintos tipos de materiales.…”

An Unfinished Manifesto for Stereotomy 2.0

“…Although the present discussion focuses more on this material, it is important to provide an overview of stereotomic experiments that also use other materials, since in the scientific literature today the term ''stereotomy'' is used in a broader sense: it has begun distance itself from its traditional association with stone architecture, approaching instead the literal definition of ''science of cutting solids'', without any reference to a specific material. In fact, the stereotomic experimentations now includes materials with characteristics in some cases very different from stone, such as cork (Merritt and Varela 2014), polystyrene (McGee et al 2013), plastics (Diles 2018), autoclaved aerated concrete (Clifford et al 2016a, b), and other cast materials (Varela and Sousa 2018).…”

Fabricate 2017

“…Over lunch, the potential for a synthesis was gauged. In the years that followed, the intense collaboration that ensued resulted in a number of projects and articles (McGee, 2013, Feringa, 2014, Søndergaard, 2016. The industrial merit of the approaches explored paved the way to further develop these at an industrial scale, leading to the founding of Odico Formwork Robotics in the spring of 2012 (Søndergaard, 2014).…”