Aug 4, 2009

Robots and bricks

make an amazingly good coupling. The following was taken from archidose (and yes, scanning architecture blogs is only something I've picked up in the last three weeks).

Anyhoo... it's a project by Bearth & Deplazes Architeckten, completed in 2008, behold the Martha und Daniel Gantenbein:








"Ah! but it's just a barn!!" you cry. Fools! check that brick facade detail:















Yeah... yeah...!! bubbles! how on earth did they do that? Well... liasoning with people who know all sorts of crazy technology.In this instance, Gramazio & Kohler. They used a robotic production method developed at the ETH (Zurich) and it's something that I will be looking into for a possible research topic.

But for now, more of the crazy double brick facade with the polycarbonate panel interior: