Looking Outwards-03 Computational Fabrication-Veronica Wang

The Brick Labyrinth is a project done at ETH Zurich’s Architectural department using programming in the design process and robotics fabrication. On their website it is described that「 The Brick Labyrinth is re-visiting one of the most archaic building techniques, dry-stacked brick walls, in a completely new setting…the Master of Advanced Studies used the multi-robotic gantry system in the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory to build a full-scale architectural installation of a brick labyrinth. Students used computational tools not only to iterate through designs but also to check the stability and feasibility of the produced structures and to generate the sequence and commands to control the multi-robotic fabrication of the final structure. 」

I took a robotics centered architectural design studio last semester and we took a lot of inspiration from the ETH program. I am interested in especially how robotics fabrication can aid construction processes and its ability to accurately execute complex designs within a shorter amount of time because of the streamlined process.