Flight Assembled Architecture
feature, interactive — By Blaine Brownell on January 20, 2012 at 9:00 amFlight Assembled Architecture is a demonstration project that exhibits research conducted on flying machine enabled construction by ETH Zürich professor Raffaello D’Andrea and architects Gramazio & Kohler. The first installation to be built by flying machines, Flight Assembled Architecture utilizes software-controlled flying robots to place foam bricks individually in order to construct a large open-weave structure. Imagined as a scale representation of a 600 m tall towering city, the installation “addresses radical new ways of thinking and materializing architecture as a physical process of dynamic formation,” says D’Andrea.
Contact: ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Tags: biomimetic, digital, intelligent, interfacial, process

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