Students:
Cemil Ceyhan Gonen (Turkey),
Vishu Bhooshan (India),
Konstantinos Psomas (Greece),
Sara Gemma Sabate (Spain)
Tutor: Theodore Spyropoulos
Flight Assembled Architecture
The first phase of our research focused on Robotic Fabrication in the field of architecture. Specifically we are interested in flight assembly using Quadrotors as a fabrication and design tool. The intention was to develop a smart agent with embedded behavioural intelligence based on the force zone of the flying machine’s hovering and moving characteristics. These force zones are in both compression or tension and we developed force fields by drawing tangential vectors to configuration lines within a physics engine. The materiality aspect of the Proto-Design agenda was addressed with Bi-resin, a quick setting material with phase changing capabilities and additional qualities of lightness and high compressive strength. We questioned existing notions of space by developing a choreographed movement of Quadrotors based on local rules which combined with the material tests of Bi-resin lead to forms of a global formation (structure).
