On Robotic Building lab’s initiative and with support from TU Delft Moonshot, TU Delft Robotic and Space Institutes, and ESA, a team of PhD and MSc students have robotically mapped fragments of lava tubes in Sicily as part of the Rhizome and Lunar Architecture and Infrastructure projects.
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On Nov. 11 Henriette Bier lectures and meets with researchers at AUIC and the dean at DS PoliMi to explore potential synergies for Extra-/ terrestrial Architecture.
Extra-/ terrestrial Architecture is concerned with the development of design to construction approaches by transferring advanced technologies from terrestrial to extraterrestrial applications and vice versa. The focus is on the integration of advanced computational design with robotic techniques in order to produce highly performative architectural formations operating in a range of extreme to moderate environments. This requires that the design is directly linked to building production and operation relying on Design-to-Robotic-Production-Assembly & -Operation methods developed in collaboration with experts from computer, robotic, and material sciences in the Robotic Building lab.
Registration to the Interactive Architecture Prototypes (IAP) workshop 2025 starts soon!
The IAP focuses on skill building in Artificial Intelligence (AI) supported Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) methods for the development of architectural hybrid assemblies ranging from micro levels, as material systems, to meso and macro levels as building components and buildings.
Previous 3rd prize winning competition entry: Moon Station
Previous projects: Cyber-physical Furniture, Bio-Cyber-Physical Planetoids, Computer Vision and Human-Robot Interaction for D2RA, Scalable Porosity
Henriette Bier is speaker at Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam which explores the relationship between film, cities and architecture.
https://www.affr.nl/en/films/this-is-not-a-house/
https://www.affr.nl/en/films/the-house-6-points-of-departure/
Intro to two documentaries featuring Morphosis’ Crawford House and Donaldson + Partners‘ Hill House at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (https://lnkd.in/dzjGGnsn & https://lnkd.in/d-UyhQwJ) and meeting with Robin Donaldson (also a former Morphosis member) and Californian film makers Gregg Goggin and Susan Crawford Goggin has inspired moment of reflection on how Pritzker-winning architect Thom Mayne influenced our later careers.
