Can worms replace workers?
Silk doesn’t seem like the sturdiest building material, but a group at MIT turned to 6,500 live silkworms to build a structure that connects nature with technology in a whole new way. They programmed a robotic arm to create a framework
across a metal scaffold that gave the silkworms a roadmap to follow. When the worms were let loose on the structure, they responded to light, heat, and geometry, producing patterns that were a reflection of their environment. The
resulting dome could inspire researchers to design and make man-made fiber structures never before imagined.
Architecture can imitate the beautiful efficiency of nature.
Silk Pavilion. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States MIT MEDIA LAB MEDIATED MATTER GROUP
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Silk doesn’t seem like the sturdiest building material, but a group at MIT turned to 6,500 live silkworms to build a structure that connects nature with technology in a whole new way. They programmed a robotic arm to create a framework
across a metal scaffold that gave the silkworms a roadmap to follow. When the worms were let loose on the structure, they responded to light, heat, and geometry, producing patterns that were a reflection of their environment. The
resulting dome could inspire researchers to design and make man-made fiber structures never before imagined.
Architecture can imitate the beautiful efficiency of nature.
Silk Pavilion. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States MIT MEDIA LAB MEDIATED MATTER GROUP
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Can metal breathe?
The outside of a building, its skin, should be more similar to human skin—dynamic and responsive to the environment. That’s the idea behind smart thermo-bimetal. Because it is made of two strips of different metals that respond
differently to heat, this experimental building material requires no controls or energy to react to changes in temperature. When installed, its reactive property allows the system to ventilate on hot days, while shading it at the same time.
Humans breathe—so should our buildings.
Bloom. (Concept) DORIS KIM SUNG
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The outside of a building, its skin, should be more similar to human skin—dynamic and responsive to the environment. That’s the idea behind smart thermo-bimetal. Because it is made of two strips of different metals that respond
differently to heat, this experimental building material requires no controls or energy to react to changes in temperature. When installed, its reactive property allows the system to ventilate on hot days, while shading it at the same time.
Humans breathe—so should our buildings.
Bloom. (Concept) DORIS KIM SUNG
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What if drones carried bricks, not missiles?
Flight Assembled Architecture is an installation built by flying robots. To build the 6-meter- high structure, a group of four-bladed helicopters carried fifteen
hundred foam bricks and placed them based on digital design data that dynamically controls their behavior. This visionary approach to building is the result of a collaboration between architects Gramazio & Kohler and inventor
Raffaello D’Andrea, who belong to a new generation of architects seeking to push the limits of digital design and fabrication.
No cranes. No ladders. No limits.
Flight Assembled Architecture. (Concept) Orléans, France GRAMAZIO & KOHLER AND RAFFAELLO D’ANDREA
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Flight Assembled Architecture is an installation built by flying robots. To build the 6-meter- high structure, a group of four-bladed helicopters carried fifteen
hundred foam bricks and placed them based on digital design data that dynamically controls their behavior. This visionary approach to building is the result of a collaboration between architects Gramazio & Kohler and inventor
Raffaello D’Andrea, who belong to a new generation of architects seeking to push the limits of digital design and fabrication.
No cranes. No ladders. No limits.
Flight Assembled Architecture. (Concept) Orléans, France GRAMAZIO & KOHLER AND RAFFAELLO D’ANDREA
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Can a skyscraper be built in a day?
Building a skyscraper used to take years. But a group in China is changing everything we know about construction, building a fifteen-story hotel in six days,
then a thirty-story hotel in just over two weeks. The secret is prefabrication: Large sections of the building were assembled in a factory, eliminating waste and delays at the building site. According to the China Academy of Building Research, the tower is five times more earthquake-resistant than a similar one built with traditional methods.
Even if buildings can happen in the blink of an eye, they should still stand the test of time.
T30 Hotel. Hunan Province, China BROAD GROUP
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Building a skyscraper used to take years. But a group in China is changing everything we know about construction, building a fifteen-story hotel in six days,
then a thirty-story hotel in just over two weeks. The secret is prefabrication: Large sections of the building were assembled in a factory, eliminating waste and delays at the building site. According to the China Academy of Building Research, the tower is five times more earthquake-resistant than a similar one built with traditional methods.
Even if buildings can happen in the blink of an eye, they should still stand the test of time.
T30 Hotel. Hunan Province, China BROAD GROUP
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