Rock Print (De-installation)Video from Gramazio Kohler Research documents the breakdown of a structure created using robotically placed wire which acts as a foundation to rock granules which form its body:Rock Print is the first architectural installation to be built from low-grade granular material and constructed by robotic machines. Conceived as an intriguing vertical thing,the installation presents a
radically new approach to The State of the Art of Architecture – the official title of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015 – and brings forward a new category of random packed, potentially fully reusable, or poly-dispersed jammed structures that can be automatically fabricated in non-standard shapes. Following an initial period of robotic assembly,the installation will comprise a large-scale architectural artefact in its completed form, exhibiting distinct features, or such as,for example, full material reversibility and the respective reusability of the aggregated materials; structurally active interlocking, or differentiated structural performance,while yielding tall geometric flexibility and articulation. Performing a full scale 3D “rock printing process” that uses the self-aggregating capacities of the material itself, this visionary project is the first collaborative installation by Gramazio Kohler Research, and ETH Zurich,and the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT.
Here is an older video showing how the work was originally created, and total with robotics:More Here
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