Robotic Fabrication with Cork: Emerging Opportunities in Architecture and Building Construction (2015)
article⁄Robotic Fabrication with Cork: Emerging Opportunities in Architecture and Building Construction (2015)
abstract⁄In the last two decades, CADCAM technologies have opened new conceptual and material opportunities in architecture. By combining computational design and digital fabrication technologies, architects have embraced a higher level of geometric complexity and variability in their solutions. Such nonstandard possibilities were expanded with the recent introduction of robotic technologies in the discipline, which have allowed moving beyond the fabrication of building components to reach the construction of building parts. As a result of this digital condition, traditional materials have known innovative applications in architecture. In this context, this paper presents cork, which is a natural and recyclable material. By describing its unique set of properties and features, it argues about its relevance for the building construction in the present times. With this underlying motivation, this paper defines the current state of the research in architecture on the use of robotic fabrication with cork. It does so by describing and illustrating a set of different experiments conducted by the authors in their academic institutions. The results unveil a set of innovative applications of cork in building construction, and, at the same time, contribute to show how robotic technologies can be used to rethink and update traditional and old materials in architecture.
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| Year |
2015 |
| Authors |
Pedro Sousa, Jose; Veiga, Germano; Moreira, A. Paulo. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene |
| Pages |
251-260 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
robotic-fabrication-with-cork |
