Abel Groenewolt | studio any

IAM Open Lecture 4: Robot-Aided Architecture

Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:00:00 +0000

Abel Groenewolt is a research associate at the Institute for Computational Design at Universität Stuttgart. He earned his degree in architecture from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2006, and after having worked in various offices in Helsinki, he pursued a postgraduate degree in Architecture and Information at ETH Zürich in 2014. Before joining ICD, he worked at Design to Production and at the chair of Architecture and Building Systems at ETH Zürich. His interests revolve around the relationships between geometry, computation and construction, with a particular focus on the implications that the linking of the digital with the buildable has on design methods. His current research focus is on the development of structurally informed, robotically produced timber building systems.

7xCabin

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

7x Cabin

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:22:31 +0300

The 7xCabin is the result of a workshop focusing on the implementation of a robotic fabrication process on the architectural scale. Instead of inventing a new architectural language based on shifts in technology, this projects searches for an integrative approach towards traditional crafts and archetypal forms. Using digital design tools, traditional timber joints were adapted to be usable with raw, irregular logs. These joints have subsequently been produced using a chainsaw mounted on an industrial robot. All movements for the robot were planned digitally, with students preparing the exact toolpaths for each log type.

The project was realized by students of MAS CAAD prostgraduate program at ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Tom Pawlofsky. Tom Pawlofksi’s Rhino2KRL plugin was used to export Kuka source code.
The cabin was reassembled and displayed at the ETHz Campus at Honggerberg during February 2014.

The project video was accepted as project participation to Rob|Arch 2014 - the international conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design.

Credits

Workshop instructor
Tom Pawlofski
Project authors
Adel Albloushi, Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Christian Braun, Kaihong Chen, Grigorios Grigoriadis, Abel Groenewolt, Periklis Kyriakidis, Valle Medina, Constantinos Miltiadis, Regina Mirzoyants, Yu-ting Sheng, Togo Takamura and Tom Pawlofski
Documentation
Periklis Kyriakidis, Constantinos Miltiadis
Renderings
Abel Groenewolt
Video
Constantinos Miltiadis

Image documentation

Porocity

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:26:43 +0300

Porocity is a collaborative procedural design project implementing shape grammars in Processing. Produced by the 2013 MAS CAAD class at the Chair for Digital Architectonics (née Chair for CAAD), during a programming course taught by Benjamin Dillenburger.