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While architecture and architectural production are increasingly incorporating aspects of non-human agency employing data, information and knowledge contained within the (worldwide) network connecting electronic devices, the relevant question for the future is not if but how robotic systems will be incorporated into building processes and physically built environments (Bier 2013) in order to improve everyday life. The first book of the Adaptive Environments (AE) series on Robotic Building (RB) aims to answer this question by critically reflecting on the achievements of the last decades in the application of robotics in architecture and furthermore outlining potential future developments and their societal implications.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70866-9

His research focusses on developing and integrating methods of form-finding and reconfigurable assembly in Design-to-Robotic-Production.

From Artifacts to Architecture
Hamed Alavi, Elizabeth Churchill, David Kirk, Henriette Bier, Himanshu Verma, Denis Lalanne, Holger Schnädelbach
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Workshop at H8:A participants presented on 26/5 three projects: One using physical motion to define the position of digital objects within a virtual space, the other one using physical muscle contractions and arm orientations / motions to select and move digital objects within a virtual space, and the last one light-sensitive sensors to control the pixilation and fragmentation of a displayed digital image.

Project 1

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Project 3

Alexander Liu Cheng, Henriette Bier, and Sina Mostafavi publish a paper on Integration of a Wearable Interface in a Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation Development in the 35th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2018) (July 20-25, 2018) Continue reading →

May 12th, 2017 – 12:15 @ Protospace, TUD

Designing structures with minimal environmental impact is now a serious concern in the construction sector. Active control has been used in civil engineering structures for a variety of purposes. The most widespread application so far has been in vibration control. The potential of using adaptation to save material mass has been investigated by some but whether the energy saved by using less material makes up the energy consumed through control and actuation is a question that has so far received little attention.
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PhD candidate Alexander Liu Cheng undergoes his Go/No Go evaluation (23.03.2017) before his Supervisors, viz., Prof.ir. Kas Oosterhuis and Dr.-Ing. Henriette Bier; and External Reviewers, viz., Prof. Dr. Keith Evan Green (Cornell University) and Dr. Holger Schnädelbach (University of Nottingham). The Go/No Go evaluation is the mandatory first-year evaluation of the candidate’s undertaken work and corresponding results. It is intended as a mechanism to ensure quality, pertinence, and appropriate levels of innovation expected of doctoral work.
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The Springer Series in Adaptive Environments presents cutting-edge research around spatial constructs and systems that are specifically designed to be adaptive to their surroundings and to their inhabitants. The creation and understanding of such adaptive Environments spans the expertise of multiple disciplines, from architecture to design, from materials to urban research, from wearable technologies to robotics, from data mining to machine learning and from sociology to psychology. Continue reading →

This exhibition is part of the first edition of Mutations/Creations, a new platform for art, science and innovation at the Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with Ircam. Imprimer le Monde will be held from March, 15th 2017 to June, 19th 2017.
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