Manuelr – Looking Outwards 03 – Gramazio & Kohler_Flying architecture

This week I am going to discuss this innovative breathtaking project done by Gramazio & Kohler, global referents at robotic fabrication.

They have done a lot of research with industrial robots, which is an emergent market and many universities are introducing them into their research areas. Here at CMU, we have 2 ABB robots living in dFAB, SoA.

However, Gramazio and Kohler went a step further in what robotic fabrication means. Using drones, they assembled a whole structural towers with no analog means. Everything, from the first brick to the last one, was laid by drones.

Flight Assembled Architecture is the first architectural installation assembled by flying robots, free from the touch of human hands. The work consists of over 1500 modules which are placed by a multitude of drones, collaborating according to mathematical algorithms that translate digital design data to the behaviour of the flying machines.

This system acts as a living architectural machines, completing the composition from their dynamic formation of movement and building performance.

Link to the project and video below:

Drones can “collaborate to build architectural structures”