Robotic Fabrication in Architecture II
From Additive Manufacturing to Architecture
In this seminar, students investigate the perspectives and potentials of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies in architecture. Topics such as materiality, structure, building climate or thermal envelope are explored using a case study for the design of a mixed-use building on the Ägidienmarkt in Braunschweig, applying various new AM methods being developed at both Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS). The demand for sustainability is addressed in different aspects dealing with the fabrication of building structures that create a balance between durability, material justice and resource efficiency as well as flexible, spacious playability, and is implemented in architectural designs.
Based on the design project in the summer semester 2022 "From [AM] to [ARC]", this in-depth course is offered in the winter semester 2022/23, in which selected concepts are elaborated for the fabrication of full-scale demonstrators and prototypes. These demonstrators will then be additively manufactured in cross-disciplinary teams in collaboration with the researchers of the Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 277 "Additive Manufacturing in Construction" in the laboratories at TUM and TUBS.
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