May 22, 2019

Additive Manufacturing: Behavior-Based Concrete Deposition

May 22, 2019/ r s-s

SITUATED FABRICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK | 2016
Innsbruck, Austria
Technology Seminar: Robotic Fabrication

situatedFabrications explores design through generative fabrication methods that utilise situated robotic protocols to engage in real-time sensing and fabrication behaviours. As a behaviour-based approach to 3D Printing in concrete, robot operations negotiate pre-determined design intention, real-time feedback and encoded algorithmic design behaviours in order to produce novel Additively Manufactured works. The seminar focused on the design and prototyping of a concrete architectural screen partial mockup. Digital and physical processes will aim to embody spatial, formal and material affects that arise from their integrated design and production process. Messy and engaging; these processes involve novel forms of participation and in-direct control, and aim to challenge the explicit nature of established robotic fabrication procedures.

Visiting Professor: Robert Stuart-Smith

Academic Chair: Marjan Colletti

Academic Staff:
Johannes Ladinig, Georg Grasser, Pedja Gavrilovic,

students:
Andreas Auer
Monique banks
Marcus Bernhard
Thomas Bortondello
Marc Differding
Christophe Fanck
Konstantin Jauck
Emanuel Kravanja
Jil Medinger
Sonia Molina-Gil
Pol Olk
Michael Schwaiger
Mario Shaaya
Melina Stefanova
David Stieler
Theresa Uitz
Matthias Vinatzer
Alexandra Zeinhofer

AML-PENN

Autonomous Manufacturing Lab Weitzman School of Design | University of Pennsylvania
Autonomous Manufacturing Lab (AML-PENN) explores the integration of design and production within robotic processes of building manufacturing. The interdisciplinary AML lab aims to develop innovative methods of autonomous and semi-autonomous bespoke fabrication that leverage real-time robotics, computation, sensor and computer vision technologies within generative design processes for architectural design. AML-PENNDesign is part of PennDesign's Advanced Research and Innovation Lab (ARI).

Advanced Research & Innovation Lab & PennDesign Robotics Lab
The Advanced Research & Innovation Lab (ARI) brings together the combined expertise of PennDesign faculty members with state-of-the art fabrication, measurement and modeling technologies. ARI is led by Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam and comprises a wide variety of research groups: the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab (Assistant Professor of Architecture Robert Stuart-Smith), the Polyhedral Structures Lab or PSL (Assistant Professor of Architecture Masoud Akbarzadeh), and the Baroque Topologies Lab (Associate Professor of Architecture Andrew Saunders), with additional initiatives in development. As part of multi-year plan to provide additional tools and facilities to support the scholarship of PennDesign faculty and students, ARI opens up vast new territories for innovation and places the School at the forefront of applied and speculative research in several domains.

University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
The Weitzman School of Design prepares students to address complex sociocultural and environmental issues through thoughtful inquiry, creative expression, and innovation. As a diverse community of scholars and practitioners, we are committed to advancing the public good–both locally and globally–through art, design, planning, and preservation.

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