The Idea of Building

Groák, Steven

doi:10.4324/9780203239216

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“…Building culture is largely predicated on the use of pre-manufactured components and/or pre-processed materials, which are combined by a skilled workforce to make material assemblies in accordance to pre-determined instruction [Groak, 1992]. This project deals with material that is undergoing continual autonomous growth over extended periods.…”

Section: Practices Of Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids

Hamann

Wahby

Schmickl

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

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Besides the life-as-it-could-be driver of artificial life research there is also the concept of extending natural life by creating hybrids or mixed societies that are built from both natural and artificial components. In this paper, we motivate and present the research program of the project flora robotica. We present our concepts of control, hardware design, modeling, and human interaction along with preliminary experiments. Our objective is to develop and to investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials of a plant-robot society able to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces. These robot-plant bio-hybrids create synergies that allow for new functions of plants and robots. They also create novel design opportunities for an architecture that fuses the design and construction phase. The bio-hybrid is an example of mixed societies between 'hard artificial and 'wet natural life, which enables an interaction between natural and artificial ecologies. They form an embodied, selforganizing, and distributed cognitive system which is supposed to grow and develop over long periods of time resulting in the creation of meaningful architectural structures. A key idea is to assign equal roles to robots and plants in order to create a highly integrated, symbiotic system. Besides the gain of knowledge, this project has the objective to create a bio-hybrid system with a defined function and application -growing architectural artifacts.

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Section: Practices Of Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids

Hamann

Wahby

Schmickl

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

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“…Constructing buildings involved a repertoire of knowledge in products, techniques, environments and legislation, tied with extensive levels of liability that were beyond the scope of the individual (Groak, 1993). The medium of drawing and organisation of the building industry underwent the first phase of a revolutionary change.…”

Section: Matters Of Transgressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transgression from drawing to making

Sheil¹

2005

Arq

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“…This paper argues that one should instead accept the need for longer term thinking, which reflects the uncertainty of future occupation and housing demand. While it has been argued that flexibility costs money, Henz states that if any upfront additional investment is needed (which we would argue is not always the case) it can be set off against long-term economic calculations such as a higher appreciation of the dwelling on the part of the user, less occupant fluctuation, and the ability to react quickly to changing needs or wants of the existing or potential inhabitants and the market [1]. 2 This ability is of particular importance for the social housing sector, where the opportunity to change the use or configuration provides a level of choice, for both tenants and their public sector landlords, which is otherwise non-existent in this sector.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First the in-built opportunity for adaptability, defined as 'capable of different social uses', and second the opportunity for flexibility, defined as 'capable of different physical arrangements'. 1 This principle of enabling social and physical change in housing might appear selfevidently sensible. However, despite numerous attempts from a policy as well as a user side to embrace the principles, flexibility in housing design has never been fully accepted.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%