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... and theoretical investigations
into FrAgility, which explore the synthesis of agile robotic fabrication
methods with fragile materiality. In this case, 3 industrial robots have
3D-printed their own structural, ornamental, porous and coral-like
sheltering cocoons in concrete, one of architecture’s archetypical
materials. In a second stage, which can be observed live at the Ars Electronica
2016, the robots spin a much finer, filigree and elastic layer of PLA in a
process of cocooning. The installation symbolizes the on-going metamorphosis of
robotics in architecture to transform from stubby and clumsy ‘Fordian
caterpillars’ to frAgile ‘post-digital chrysalises’.
Research Project and
Design:
Prof. Marjan Colletti, Johannes Ladinig, REX|LAB
Collaborators:
Georg Grasser, Galo Patricio Montayo Asan, Pedja Gavrilovic, Lukas
Jonathan Härtenberger, David Christoph Stieler, Christoph Tobias Schlopschnat,
Peter Griebel
Sponsored by:
Ars Electronica; the Faculty of Architecture, the
Institute for Experimental Architecture and REX|LAB - Innsbruck University
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