Cooperative Mobile Brickwork, a collaboration between the Professorship of Digital Fabrication and the Bauinnung München-Ebersberg, investigated how people and mobile robots could support and cooperate with each other in brickwork construction.

At the beginning of the seminar, bricklayer apprentices from the training center of the Bauinnung München-Ebersberg taught students the theoretical and practical basic principles of historical brickwork. Building on this, the course participants were taught theories and basic practical knowledge for fabrication-oriented digital design and robot-based fabrication in architecture. Using existing examples, students learned the principles of parametric design of brickwork using the Python programming language in Rhino and Grasshopper software. The theoretical principles discussed were deepened in design exercises. These served as preparation for a 3-day fabrication workshop in which students, apprentices, and a mobile robot collaboratively created a 1:1 scale design at the premises of the Bauinnung.

Overall, the seminar aimed to promote students' understanding of how new technologies, materials, and processes could contribute to a progressive and sustainable building culture.

Collaborators
Professorship of Digital Fabrication
Lidia Atanasova, Dipl.-Ing.
Kathrin Dörfler, Prof. Dr.

Bauinnung München-Ebersberg
Markus Bruckner (Master Bricklayer, Plasterer, and Construction Technician),
Sebastian Posselt, Dipl.-Ing. (Director of the Training Center),
Laura Lammel, Dipl.-Ing. (Board of Directors)

Participants
Felix Haefner, Patrik Goebel, Basti Zopf, Benedikt Altmann, Laurenz Haag, Angie Karolina Guerrero David, Risa Kashiwagi, Cong Liu, Janina Müller